Jeanette Wolfberg is reporting in The Columbia Paper after nearly five years, the Bridge Alternate Transition Program is expanding its courses, services and activities. Located in the Warren Street Academy at 11 Warren Street in Hudson, the program admits 16-year-olds who have fewer high school credits than are needed to graduate on time with their graduating class. The program offers smaller class sizes and more attention to social emotional development than a traditional high school. Students are permitted remain in the program until they acquire enough credits to graduate, even if it takes them until after their 18th birthday. While students receive their academic instruction at the academy, they remain members of their home high school and are eligible to participate in its extracurricular activities. Warren Street Academy principal Daniel Kalbfliesh said the program currently has 25 enrolled students from the Hudson, Catskill, Germantown and Ichabod Crane school districts. More than half of those students are expected to graduate in 2018. Since it was established in February 2014, the Alternate Transition Program has graduated 27 of 39 enrolled students. The academy also offers a day program for 20 special education students enrolled in grades 7 through 12, from Columbia, Duchess, Greene and Rensselaer counties. The academy and the alternate transition program are part of the Berkshire Union Free School District. Read the full story in The Columbia Paper.