NORFOLK — With money remaining from the district’s $9.1 million capital project, Norwood-Norfolk Central School officials are moving ahead with phase-two work to address some smaller projects.
NORFOLK â Plans are still in the works on how graduation ceremonies will be held for the Norwood-Norfolk Central School Class of 2021.
âWe have made no plans yet, but weâve been talking,â Superintendent James M. Cruikshank said.
He said Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo had talked about âopening things upâ on May 19, but there wasnât any written guidance on how that could impact graduation.
Last yearâs ceremony was held in the district parking lot, but that may be a problem this year because of construction thatâs currently taking place.
âWe did it last year. I thought we did it well,â Mr. Cruikshank said.
WATERTOWN â While some north country school districts have figured out ways to bring more students back for in-person instruction each day, many have cited challenges, including transportation and distancing during lunch periods.
In a letter Monday, 45 school district superintendents in the St. Lawrence-Lewis, Jefferson-Lewis-Hamilton and Franklin-Essex-Hamilton BOCES regions appealed to state legislators to advocate for additional guidance to allow all students to return to school in person each day beginning in the fall.
The letter states that while the most recent guidance from April 9 is helpful in many regards, there continue to be many restrictions that will ultimately make a complete return to school impossible: cohorts at the secondary level; social distancing on school buses; social distancing in classrooms and cafeterias where students are eating; and guidance on in-person, virtual and hybrid learning.