WATERTOWN â The city school district and Flower Memorial Library have been sued by a town of LeRay couple who are upset with a $14 charge added to their school tax bill to fund the library.
John W. Eisenhauer and Kathleen Anne McGlynn Eisenhauer filed suit in state Supreme Court in Jefferson County on Jan. 5, against the city, the city school district and its Board of Education, as well as the Roswell P. Flower Memorial Library.
The Eisenhauers claim the fee is an arbitrary tax imposed on non-city residents without representation.
The city school districtâs Board of Education approved the $77 million school budget on May 26, including a question on the ballot about whether to provide $75,000 annually to the Flower Memorial Library, a fee in addition to the regular school budget. The city school district is collecting that tax revenue from taxpayers on behalf of the library. School tax bills for 2020-21 had a separate line item for the amount dedicated to the library.
POTSDAM â Some school districts in each of the tri-counties have switched to remote learning after positive cases of COVID-19 were identified in their buildings.
In Jefferson County, Indian River announced it will be going remote; in Lewis County, Beaver River announced the same; and in St. Lawrence County, students who have moved to remote instruction include all elementary students at Lawrence Avenue Elementary School in Potsdam, universal pre-kindergarten through fifth grade students at Madrid-Waddington Central School and all students at Lisbon Central School.
Lawrence Avenue Elementary School students were dismissed at 1 p.m. Thursday, and out-of-district BOCES students were dismissed at their regular time. Morning pre-kindergarten and kindergarten students were dismissed at their regular 11:05 a.m. time, and there was no afternoon Latch Key, pre-kindergarten or kindergarten. Middle and high school students remained on their regular schedules.
WATERTOWN â The recently passed bipartisan Fiscal Year 2021 government funding package includes $1.5 billion in funding for the countryâs Impact Aid Program, delivering a $15 million increase from previous years.
Earlier this year, U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand led a bipartisan letter alongside Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., urging appropriators to prioritize Impact Aid Funding to support more than 1,200 school districts across the country, including those near Fort Drum.
Federally impacted school districts educate some of the most vulnerable student populations â including Native American and military connected children â and rely on Impact Aid for resources.
As these school districts struggle to respond to the challenges caused by the coronavirus pandemic, this continued funding will help alleviate expected state funding cuts and avoid layoffs, provide adequate technology for online learning, and spur economic recovery in their communities.
WATERTOWN â Two Jefferson County school districts â Watertown and Indian River â announced further COVID-19 cases within their respective districts Tuesday â one regarding an elementary student at Watertown and two cases of staff members in Indian River.
The Watertown City School District received confirmation that a student at Sherman Elementary School tested positive for COVID-19.
According to a release from the district, the student has not been present in school.
The Indian River Central School District also announced Tuesday that it was informed of positive COVID-19 cases affecting staff members â one at Theresa Primary School and one at the middle school.
The district, in working with the Jefferson County Public Health Service as a part of its case investigation and contact tracing process, has been informed that thereâs no risk to others, and additional contact-related quarantines are unnecessary.
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