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Ballston Spa CSD receives District of Distinction Award<\/strong> BALLSTON SPA \u2014\u00a0The Ballston Spa Central School District has been designated as a \u201cDistrict of Distinction\u201d by the nationwide District Administration (DA) publication, the most read resource in K-12 education, for its work advancing the Clean Technologies & Sustainable Industries Early College High School (Clean Tech ECHS).<\/p>\n Districts of Distinction is DA\u2019s national recognition program honoring school districts that are leading the way with new ideas that work. The program recognizes established initiatives that are yielding real results and that can be replicated by other school districts.<\/p>\n Ballston Spa Central School District,\u00a0along with its higher education and business partners, operates the Clean Tech ECHS. The mission of the program is to develop and support pathways to higher education that lead to careers in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) fields through rigorous academic programming and a collaborative approach to learning. It provides high school students\u00a0an opportunity\u00a0to work towards an Associate\u2019s Degree while preparing them to transition into key industry sectors with employers in our region.<\/p>\n \u201cThis award recognizes the hard work of our faculty, staff and partners at Hudson Valley Community College who are in the classrooms every day managing and implementing this unique program,\u201d said Joseph P. Dragone, Ph.D., Superintendent, Ballston Spa Central School District.\u00a0 Further, \u201cWe greatly appreciate the support of all of our partners across all sectors that help make this program possible.\u201d<\/p>\n The Clean Tech ECHS was developed in 2011 by the Ballston Spa School district in partnership with Hudson Valley Community College (HVCC) and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA). The program leverages its relationship with over 45 leaders in business and industry, the New York State Education Department (NYSED), the State University of New York (SUNY) and HVCC to provide authentic learning experiences for students.\u00a0The program was designated as a NYS P-TECH school in 2013.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Wed, 04 Nov 2015 13:00:24 +0000 by\u00a0d.gardner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ballston Spa CSD receives District of Distinction Award Nov. 2, 2015\/Ballston Journal Online BALLSTON SPA \u2014\u00a0The Ballston Spa Central…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accolades"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nNov. 2, 2015\/Ballston Journal Online<\/p>\n