News & Announcements

February 13, 2023 – Women have to see it to be it. The WSWHE BOCES Women In Trades Initiative is focused on narrowing the skills gap and encouraging young women to enter the trades, in particular traditionally male dominated fields such as automotive technology, auto body repair, construction trades, environmental conservation & forestry, heavy equipment operation, HVAC-R, industrial and performance machining, power sports technology and welding.

Former Harlem Globetrotter, Tay “Firefly” Fisher Presents Motivational Assembly to WSWHE BOCES Exceptional Learners Students

January 20, 2023 - WSWHE BOCES administrators and board members; chief school officers from 31 school districts along with their board presidents; elected officials including Ashby, Stec, Simpson, Smullen, Tedisco, Woerner, Walsh; and business leaders gathered virtually for the 2023 Legislative Breakfast.

At the December 14, 2022 WSWHE BOCES Board of Education meeting, Maribeth Macica and Dawn Neville were each awarded a Staff Spotlight Award.

December 15, 2022 – The Washington-Saratoga-Warren-Hamilton-Essex Board of Cooperative Educational Services (WSWHE BOCES) today announces a new name and direction for its Career and Technical Education (CTE) Machine Tool Technology program.

WSWHE BOCES is committed to providing students and staff a safe learning environment. In an effort to proactively respond to potential threats within our school community, we have adopted the anonymous reporting application, STOPit.

Grateful to the Gene Haas Foundation for awarding the ETA Machine Tool Technology program a grant to assist with student tuition and program needs.

Criminal Justice Studies (CJS) students from the F. Donald Myers Education Center held their annual mock trial on December 1 and 2, 2022. It was, “Robbery: A Mock Trial” by Robert J. Rader.

November 30, 2022 — In celebration of the first New York State Apprenticeship Month and National Apprenticeship Week, Stillwater Central School District, the Washington-Saratoga-Warren-Hamilton-Essex BOCES, and the Classroom Academy hosted New York State Department of Labor Deputy Commissioner of Workforce Development Chris White, New York State Department of Labor Director of Apprenticeship Training Christopher Pinheiro, and the US Department of Labor Regional Representative Charles MacNeil, for a tour of the registered Apprenticeship program in initial state teacher certification. The visit took place on November 30th at Stillwater Elementary School

Career and Technical Education (CTE) students showed thanks this holiday season by helping their community. On November 22, Culinary Arts students from the F. Donald Myers Education Center and the Saratoga Wilton Kiwanis Club packed 120 holiday food baskets for local families in need in what they call “Operation Turkey”.