SNAPSHOT: Longtime educator retires after witnessing major changes at CTE

SNAPSHOT: Longtime educator retires after witnessing major changes at CTE

After nearly four decades in the classroom, a local woman is retiring. Andrea Rea has been a constant presence in the Capital Region Career and Technical Education Center (CTE) for 38 years, starting her service on the Albany Campus before switching to the Schoharie Campus about 20 years ago. Rea began her work for Capital Region BOCES in a now-defunct preschool program. She then moved on to an also defunct teen parenting program. After a brief …

Long-time teacher is retiring

A high number of school district educators are retiring this month, 13, but none with more years of teaching service than Franklin Elementary School special education teacher Peter DiCanio. DeCanio’s decades of experience were all in Bloomfield, beginning at Forest Glen in 1981. He moved to South Junior in 1986, for its final year, before […]