To the editor: On April 26, the Adirondack Daily Enterprise printed an article titled “LP school considers diversity consultant.” This letter is to clarify the intent of the $25,000 allocation in the 2021-22 budget. In the article it was stated that the “District administrators proposed setting aside $25,000 for a temporary social studies teacher who would focus on integrating diversity, equity and inclusion.” I would like to clarify that the board approved a $20,731,143.00 budget that included “Up to $25,000 additional funding for any contractual expenses associated with curriculum and instruction.” Nowhere in the budget conversation during the April 20 meeting was the $25,000 explicit to a social studies teacher or, for that matter, any other focus area. While Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is enormously important to the district, the allocation of these funds remain undefined and are meant to be broadly applied, not aimed solely at social studies.
eizzo@adirondackdailyenterprise.com LAKE PLACID Three people have been chosen as finalists in the search for Lake Placid’s new school superintendent. The new superintendent, who will be chosen and appointed by the school’s Board of Education, will replace Roger Catania, who is retiring at the end of this school year. Catania has been Lake Placid Central School District’s superintendent since 2013, though he worked at the high school as a counselor for several years before that, starting in 1997. The three candidates who are being considered as his replacement are Timothy Seymour, the current superintendent of the St. Regis Falls Central School District; Saranac Laker Dana Wood, former principal of the Lake Placid Middle-High School and current assistant superintendent for business, finance and support services at LPCSD; and Margaret Wright, a Canandaigua resident who has served in various administrative roles in school districts throughout the Finger Lakes region.
To the editor: I read Elizabeth Izzo’s article about retiring school superintendent Roger Catania with great interest. I have known Roger for over 50 years. I have had many conversations with him about education and his experiences over the years, from the time when we would drive in together to Manhattan (he was teaching at the Ascension School on the Upper West Side, and I was attending Fordham Law School) to more recently while he was serving as your superintendent and I was serving on my local board of education. What I can say with great certainty is that Roger loves your community and has put your children first. Roger is a gifted teacher and a superior administrator because he cares about what he does and he respects everyone.
To the editor: Your story Friday, Feb. 19, regarding the retirement of Dr. Roger Catania as Lake Placid Central School superintendent of schools needed bet
LAKE PLACID Lake Placid schools are going remote Friday, Feb. 12 for the half-day of classes left before the Presidents Day holiday after an elementary sch