Superintendent’s Blog

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Budget Message from the Superintendent

Dear MCSD Community: The Mechanicville City School District’s Board of Education has adopted the 2024-25 budget of $36,817,940 for your consideration as voters. We are proud to present this proposed budget, which reflects our unwavering commitment to high-quality education and fiscal responsibility. This represents a 10.64% increase over the current...

Superintendent’s Message to Families – Welcome Back!

Dear Mechanicville Students and Families, I hope this message finds you well and that you’ve had a safe and enjoyable summer, even if it involved a bit of rain dodging! As the Superintendent of Mechanicville Schools, I am thrilled to welcome you all back as we prepare to start the...

Next Coffee Chat Topic and Updates from Superintendent Potter

Red Raider Community: As a result of our experience this year with a change in student start times we’d like to investigate if this is something that we should continue next school year. There is a great deal of research regarding elementary school students starting earlier and secondary school students...

Important Board of Education meeting information

Please be advised beginning with our April 21, 2020 BOE Regular Meeting and continuing throughout the Covid-19 social-distancing health crisis, we will be live streaming our Regular BOE Meetings via Google Meet. Any guest wishing to join will have view-only access and should follow the connection information below: Connection Information:...

Spectrum to offer free wi-fi for students without internet access

As part of the effort to help people deal with impacts of coronavirus, Charter Communications is offering free Spectrum broadband and Wi-Fi access for 60 days to households with K-12 and/or college students who do not already have a Spectrum broadband subscription at any service level up to 100 Mbps....

MES says “good-bye” for the summer!

Hello Red Raider Nation! Two amazing videos!!! The first is an art show from Tracy Everleth: Second is a goodbye video from our staff! https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZLRVmvAX9z8bd_sE678oK0ZF3cqAyzht/view?usp=sharing​​​​​​​ Have a wonderful summer!