The Schenectady City School District has ALWAYS graduated outstanding students who have gone on to
make a positive difference in the world.  Congratulations to Dr. Sylvia Carey-Butler and the late Judge Vincent Cerrito.

College administrator, late judge to join Schenectady schools' hall of fame
Monday, June 23, 2014
By Kathleen Moore Gazette Reporter  

SCHENECTADY — A Schenectady high school graduate who left Hamilton Hill to run universities will be inducted this week into the school district’s hall of fame.

Sylvia Carey-Butler graduated from what was then Mont Pleasant High School in 1975. When the class of 2014 graduates Friday, and she is inducted, she will be hailed as an inspiration and a role model, school officials said.

Carey-Butler became a higher education administrator and addressed issues of diversity and inclusiveness within university communities.

She also established partnerships with corporations, foundations and universities to improve access to higher education.

She has held numerous administrative positions, including assistant vice chancellor for academic support of inclusive excellence at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh. She also served as assistant provost and dean of honors at Dillard University in New Orleans and as associate dean of studies at Lafayette College in Easton, Pa.

She said young people need to realize and appreciate the value of education before they can reap its benefits. Living in Schenectady motivated her, teaching her to value education and enabling her to become the person she is today, she said.

The school district will also posthumously induct Judge D. Vincent Cerrito, who graduated from Schenectady High School in 1928.

He was Schenectady County district attorney from 1948 to 1957 and 1961 to 1967. Then he was elected to the New York State Supreme Court. He retired from the court in 1985, but continued to run mediation and arbitration cases until 2004.

He died in 2009 at the age of 98. Attorneys remembered him as a fair man who was willing to spend however many hours it took to bring people together to settle their differences.

Big whoop.


Those days are long gone.


Care to address the FACT that homeowners in the city pay way over the top taxes for a lousy school system and because the patents are paying the taxes for the political cronies of the city/co/plex multimillionaire cronies, the parents have no money left to send their children to other schools.  (but then what parent would want their children at a school where you're hanging out)



DV, don't you feel  for the parents in Schenectady who have to pay for the gin mills downtown, and pay King Phillip's salary, and pay the taxes for billionaires like Galesi and Paul Mitchell, who are forced by your buddies to pay for all the wild uncontrolled spending it the city which IS causing the city to become a ghost town?  

Don't you feel the pain of parents who cannot afford the $7,000 a year per child to send their child to a school in Schenectady where a low paid teacher worked for 47 years?!

Guess since you'll never know the joys of being a dad, you won't understand and you won't respond.



DV, how about addressing the FACTS about the school in Schenectady, the graduation rate is FALLLING once again


Just like the tax base is falling
Property values falling
Home sales falling
Home sale prices falling
City services falling
Taxes increasing
Blight spreading like wildfire

The Schenectady City School District has ALWAYS graduated outstanding students who have gone on to
make a positive difference in the world.  Congratulations to Dr. Sylvia Carey-Butler and the late Judge Vincent Cerrito.

College administrator, late judge to join Schenectady schools' hall of fame
Monday, June 23, 2014
By Kathleen Moore Gazette Reporter  

SCHENECTADY — A Schenectady high school graduate who left Hamilton Hill to run universities will be inducted this week into the school district’s hall of fame.

Sylvia Carey-Butler graduated from what was then Mont Pleasant High School in 1975. When the class of 2014 graduates Friday, and she is inducted, she will be hailed as an inspiration and a role model, school officials said.

Carey-Butler became a higher education administrator and addressed issues of diversity and inclusiveness within university communities.

She also established partnerships with corporations, foundations and universities to improve access to higher education.

She has held numerous administrative positions, including assistant vice chancellor for academic support of inclusive excellence at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh. She also served as assistant provost and dean of honors at Dillard University in New Orleans and as associate dean of studies at Lafayette College in Easton, Pa.

She said young people need to realize and appreciate the value of education before they can reap its benefits. Living in Schenectady motivated her, teaching her to value education and enabling her to become the person she is today, she said.

The school district will also posthumously induct Judge D. Vincent Cerrito, who graduated from Schenectady High School in 1928.

He was Schenectady County district attorney from 1948 to 1957 and 1961 to 1967. Then he was elected to the New York State Supreme Court. He retired from the court in 1985, but continued to run mediation and arbitration cases until 2004.

He died in 2009 at the age of 98. Attorneys remembered him as a fair man who was willing to spend however many hours it took to bring people together to settle their differences.

Quoted from DemocraticVoiceOfReason

The Schenectady City School District has ALWAYS graduated outstanding students who have gone on to
make a positive difference in the world.  Congratulations to Dr. Sylvia Carey-Butler and the late Judge Vincent Cerrito.

College administrator, late judge to join Schenectady schools' hall of fame

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Once again, a graduate from the previous century!


Open your eyes DV, the school district is in massive failure, graduation rate falling miserably.


But as you will never know the joys of being a parent, you have no understanding whatsoever about being FORCCED to send your children to failing school and as you are not a taxpayer, you have no clue what it's like to pay the taxes of downtown millionaires and then not be able to have a choice in where to send your child to school

Two people that were employed by the state. Yup...That meets the requirement for success in NYS.

Quoted from mikechristine1

Once again, a graduate from the previous century!


Open your eyes DV, the school district is in massive failure, graduation rate falling miserably.


But as you will never know the joys of being a parent, you have no understanding whatsoever about being FORCCED to send your children to failing school and as you are not a taxpayer, you have no clue what it's like to pay the taxes of downtown millionaires and then not be able to have a choice in where to send your child to school

In the upside down world, the exception is the norm and the norm is the exception.

Quoted from DemocraticVoiceOfReason

The Schenectady City School District has ALWAYS graduated outstanding students .

Oh DV !!!!!!!     SHAKE YOUR POM POMS!!!!!!!!!!!!


Oh yes CHEER CHER for the Schenectady school district.


Cheer for them DV,   OH cheer loudly, jump up and down (you certainly cannot do that).  




The school district you claim is OH SO WONDERFUL.....   The class of 2014 started out in 9th grade with 733 students.  

But the school district had a RECORD HIGH number of students fail that 9the grade.

That left 553 students.

Between the massive drop outs and massive failures, the school is has a massive falling graduation rate.  

With the dropouts and failures, "Principal Diane Wilkinson figures only about 400 will be able to march across the stage June 27"

Just a paltry 400 students will receive diplomas this week.  


Oh, DV, did you learn math??????    Can you calculate the graduation rate?


Ooooooohhhhh DV, CHEER CHEER, in exchange for paying such massively high taxes, the graduation rate is a whopping 54.5%


Oh DV, a 54.5% graduation rate is oh so wonderful, isn't it?????    Keep on cheering for another failure in Schenectady.


Oh, don't worry, the students can get one of those downtown dishwashing jobs, or maid jobs, with low pay, so we who are taxpayers can pay higher taxes to subsidize them on welfare.

And of course with those low wage jobs, oh yes, DV, this will go a long way to insure that home sales will fall even more.  

That's right dV make sure the homeowners in the city pay the taxes of downtown and thus be financially unable to choose to send their children to a private or religious school

A true socialist are you DV

"graduate" of Schenectady school


No proof of graduation from college

Failure in seminary school

Failure at business

Lost insurance license

50+ yrs old and not self sufficient



Product of Schenectady schools.

Quoted from DemocraticVoiceOfReason

The Schenectady City School District has ALWAYS graduated outstanding students who have gone on to
make a positive difference in the world.  

MAYBE BUT NOW ALMOST A THIRD ARE NOT GRADUATING AT ALL....

A sampling of Capital Region rates:
District/Graduation rate/Dropout rate
City of Albany 53.8% 20.8%
Schenectady 64.5% 19.7%
Troy 71.8% 6.8%
Niskayuna 95.9%  1.9%
Bethlehem 91.2% 4.3%
Duanesburg 96.1% 1.3%
Shenendehowa 91.2% 4.1%
Saratoga Springs 91.1%  5.1%

Quoted from CICERO

Two people that were employed by the state. Yup...That meets the requirement for success in NYS.

I suggest that you go back -- actually read the article about Dr. Carey-Butler -- Two of the colleges/universities that she worked for were NOT state run schools .. Dillard and Lafayette.

Furthermore, I think it just goes to show your ignorance and bigotry that you would make such an inane and negative comment in regards to the life time of achievement of this wonderfully gifted, hard working woman.

Judge Cerrito was also a hard-working, wise judge and, more importantly (something that you and most of the nayboobs will NEVER be) a great man, a good friend and a WONDERFUL human being.

It figures that the boorish, bigots -- otherwise known as nayboobs -- can't pause for one moment and recognize a life-time of hard work and achievement by these two wonderful human beings.   It figures that the intellectually repressed and over-all immature nayboobs are only happy when they are spewing negativity and criticizing everything in their community.  

The Schenectady City School Districts, despite its challenges, has ALWAYS produced great, well-educated men and woman.  It should be applauded for that and its graduates should be applauded as well for their achievements.

Quoted from DemocraticVoiceOfReason

It figures that the boorish, bigots -- otherwise known as nayboobs -- can't pause for one moment and recognize a life-time of hard work and achievement by these two wonderful human beings.   It figures that the intellectually repressed and over-all immature nayboobs are only happy when they are spewing negativity and criticizing everything in their community.  

The Schenectady City School Districts, despite its challenges, has ALWAYS produced great, well-educated men and woman.  It should be applauded for that and its graduates should be applauded as well for their achievements.

And tell us DV, what about all the financially struggling parents in the city who are FOPRCED to send their children to a the city schools which produce only a measly 54% graduation rate????  

HUH????:    Why do you refuse to address the FACT that parents are denied their right to choose a school for their children simply because the city leadership steals their money to give it to the downtown billionaires?


Of course, you will NOT address the city leadership denying parents' rights  


And did she choose to live IN the city??????   Well??????

NOPE.   She'll have NOTHING to do with this almost highest taxed city in the country.   She'll have NOTHING to do with paying the taxes of billionaire politicall cronies.

It figures that the boorish, bigots -- otherwise known as nayboobs -- can't pause for one moment and recognize a life-time of hard work and achievement by these two wonderful human beings.   It figures that the intellectually repressed and over-all immature nayboobs are only happy when they are spewing negativity and criticizing everything in their community.  

The Schenectady City School Districts, despite its challenges, has ALWAYS produced great, well-educated men and woman.  It should be applauded for that and its graduates should be applauded as well for their achievements.

Quoted from DemocraticVoiceOfReason

I suggest that you go back -- actually read the article about Dr. Carey-Butler -- Two of the colleges/universities that she worked for were NOT state run schools .. Dillard and Lafayette.

Furthermore, I think it just goes to show your ignorance and bigotry that you would make such an inane and negative comment in regards to the life time of achievement of this wonderfully gifted, hard working woman.

Judge Cerrito was also a hard-working, wise judge and, more importantly (something that you and most of the nayboobs will NEVER be) a great man, a good friend and a WONDERFUL human being.

Jeez, I can admit that I got the Dr Carey thing wrong.  But bigoted?  Saying I'm bigoted is itself bigoted.  That's why I stay away from that word.

As for the Judge...There are a lot of great people.  Many who don't wake up every morning sentencing people to jail, and in many cases, for non violent victimless crimes.  I'll praise the widowed wife that raises their children without a father on limited means or some other example of perseverance, before some judge.

And furthermore...I don't care about some strangers personal achievements, or what public school they attended.  It's nothing personal.  This story is nothing more than a PR piece in an attempt to improve the reputation of a disastrous public school.

Quoted from CICERO

This story is nothing more than a PR piece in an attempt to improve the reputation of a disastrous public school.

EXACTLY!!!
the gazetto.....as ms. moore are nothing more than an arm of the local liberal government!!! aka government cheerleaders!