Boards of education in the AuSable Valley and Keene school districts held public hearings on Monday, May 8 for their proposed 2023-24 budgets, both of which
Boards of education in the AuSable Valley and Keene school districts are holding public hearings today for their proposed 2023-24 budgets, both of which inc
Akwesasne Boys & Girls Club is a Adirondack Foundation grant recipient.
(Provided photo â Lisa Godfrey) Generous Acts grants are helping to improve educational pathways through literacy programs for adults and families, summer enrichment programs for teens, community college recruitment efforts for non-traditional students, improving resources for preschoolers and more. Grant recipients: Adirondack Sky Center, Akwesasne Boy & Girls Club, AuSable Valley Central School District, Bing Bang Boom (Saranac Lake Rotary Foundation), Bluseed Studios, CFES Brilliant Pathways, Champlain Children’s Learning Center, Cornell Cooperative Extension for Franklin County, Crown Point Central School, CVES/Clinton-Essex-Warren-Washington BOCES, Depot Theatre, Franklin-Essex-Hamilton BOCES, Lake Placid Central School District, Literacy Volunteers of Clinton, Essex and Franklin Counties, Mountain Lake PBS, North Country Community College Foundation, Northwood School, Plattsburgh Family YMCA, Pl
AuSable Forks Elementary School
(Enterprise photo â Andy Flynn) The AuSable Valley Central School District is proposing a 1.54% increase in spending for next year’s a budget with a proposed tax levy of $14,803,500, a 1.58% increase that stays below the allowable cap of 1.6%. The district is proposing a total budget of $34,738,668, a 1.54% increase from last year. Superintendent Paul Savage II said that there are no major proposed changes to this year’s budget, with special education and vocational education costs rising by $295,835 accounting for most of increased spending. Savage said the district believes the next few years will be critical ones to address loss of learning during the pandemic.
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Saranac Lake resident Kathy Merritt places her vote in the May 2019 school election at Saranac Lake High School.
(Enterprise photo â Kevin Shea) If you want to run for your local public school board, the deadline to file your candidacy is Monday afternoon. That date is the same for every school district in the state. The school election day for board members, budgets and special propositions is also the same statewide Tuesday, May 18. All school terms are for three years, except for one unexpired term in Lake Placid. Each candidate needs to file a petition with at least 25 qualified signatures. (The requirement is for either 25 or 2% of the number of voters in the district’s last election, but for that 2% to be more than 25, a district would have to have had more than 1,250 voters, and the Adirondack Park’s districts are too small for that.)