Friday, January 29, 2021 - 1:13 pm
BY MATT LINDSEY
North Country This Week
St. Lawrence County schools are fine-tuning their pandemic plans that are now required by the state.
On Sept. 7, Governor Andrew Cuomo signed legislation requiring school districts and other public entities to incorporate a Pandemic Operations Plan into district safety plans.
“This is meant to prepare districts or other public employers for a potential future pandemic,” according to St. Lawrence-Lewis BOCES Director of Communications and Marketing Rebekah Mott.
The bill states specific requirements for the plan to address.
“The SLL BOCES is also required to produce this plan, and a team at BOCES created a draft plan template that was shared with school districts to adapt to their own specific protocols,” Mott said. “The plan includes a listing of essential workers, an explanation of protocols in the event of a positive case of a contagious virus, a protocol for shifting em
Wednesday, January 27, 2021 - 6:03 am
BY MATT LINDSEY
North Country This Week
CANTON Schools have been seeing an increase in students testing positive for COVID-19, according to Canton Central Superintendent Ron Burke.
Several school districts have shifted to remote learning in recent weeks after positive COVID-19 tests of students and staff.
CCS has at least five students test positive for COVID in the last week.
“It’s a little bit unusual to see this many, we haven’t seen this many students this close together,” Burke said, noting that he did not think any of the students who tested positive were related.