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On the last day of school, students at Tri-North Middle School hoped to dig up a time capsule buried decades ago.

CAPITAL REGION, N.Y. — On Tuesday, May 18, school districts across the Capital Region held votes on budgets and school board elections. According to the New York State School Boards Association, New York voters approved 99.2% of school district budgets. "We appreciate the many who turned out – in person or by absentee ballot – to approve local school budget proposals and elect school board members this year,' NYSSBA Executive Director Robert Schneider stated. "The high passage rate for proposed budgets is a welcome endorsement of spending plans that will strengthen our educatio...

BOSTON - Instead of a compass, intrepid explorer Rachel Mead uses an ingenious digital tool named Atlascope to wander through long-vanished streets and neighborhoods of Boston, Cambridge and adjacent suburbs. Designed by the Norman B. Leventhal Map and Education Center in the Boston Public Library and free to the public, Atlascope has digitalized 101 cumbersome street atlases of Boston and neighboring cities from 1873 to 1938 so they can be accessed on computers and cell phones to guide viewers through the past. Like the surveyor who discovered the ruins of Pompeii 16 centuries after it was b...

jward@observertoday.com At a special meeting, the Dunkirk Board of Education began the steps needed to approve a budget for the 2021-22 school year. It unanimously voted on the tentative BOCES administrative budget, which was in the amount of $3,286,094. The other item voted on was the property tax report card which was also approved unanimously. The budget for the upcoming school year totals $51,413,792, which is a little over a 3% increase from this year. The rise is primarily driven by the special education needs and English as a New Language services, occupational education enrollment a...

jward@observertoday.com No cuts to programs or staff are in place for the Dunkirk City School District’s 2021-22 budget. At Tuesday’s Board of Education meeting the upcoming budget was happily announced as the state aid details were finally in to help get the numbers together for the district. “We do not need to dip into our reserves,” Superintendent Michael Mansfield stated. “This is good news. If the state follows through with the statute of full phase foundation aid over the next three years it could really help us in avoiding excessing our fund balance and reserves for another ...