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Sheppard: Auburn school budget strikes good balance

Joseph Sheppard Special to The Citizen The 2020-2021 budget is a good balance of tackling immediate needs, like recovering from COVID-disrupted learning, while making long-term investments in lowering class sizes, restoring art and music, and providing much needed social and emotional supports for our students. This year has been a tremendously challenging year for our students, parents and staff. We are confident that with your support of the budget this year, we can come together stronger than ever before; our students deserve nothing less. Thankfully, after some worrying signs in the early versions of the state budget, the federal stimulus package included funding to pay for the unbudgeted costs associated with keeping our students safe and learning as best as possible during the pandemic. On a moment’s notice, the Auburn Enlarged City School District had to distribute laptops and internet hotspots to our students. We also had to take on ever-changing rules for

Sheppard: Auburn students accomplishing considerable feats

Sheppard: Auburn students accomplishing considerable feats
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Sheppard: Auburn schools recognize Black History Month

Joseph Sheppard Special to The Citizen February was Black History Month, and Auburn schools were busy learning about and recognizing the many accomplishments of people of color. Several of our schools recognized these accomplishments every morning during the morning announcements, and many of our teachers built Black history recognitions into their curriculum. At Seward Elementary, a person of color and his/her accomplishments were shared during the morning announcements every school day throughout the month of February. Owasco Elementary also utilized morning announcements to recognize people of color. Some of the people highlighted included Maya Angelou, George Washington Carver, Vice President Kamala Harris, Sen. John Lewis, President Barack Obama, Jackie Robinson, Harriet Tubman, Booker T. Washington and many others.

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