Rotarian Dave Kruczlnicki, left, and Stuart Williams, right, coordinator of community relations for the Ballston Spa School District, listen to district Superintendent Ken Slentz at our meeting this morning at The Ugly Rooster.
Slentz led a wide-ranging discussion about issues in this area and beyond, including what he said has been a successful "structured literacy" reading initiative in the district over the past three years. He said the much discussed "learning loss" due to Covid has been "overstated", because "we built in a ton of support" for students using federal aid.
Slentz said some people still stigmatize BOCES programs, which he characterized as a prejudice "not based on reality" because many students get qualifications for good jobs there. But the superintendent also expressed concern about graduation rates as low as 23 percent in local community colleges.
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