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Budget and Finances

Financial Audit Report 2024

Financial Audit Report 2023

Annual Meeting and Budget Booklet

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Data Privacy

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District-Wide Safety Plan

District residents are invited to submit public comments regarding the District-Wide School Safety Plan. Districts are required to develop a district-wide school safety plan designed to prevent or minimize the effects of serious violent incidents, declared state disaster emergencies involving a communicable disease or local public health emergency declarations and other emergencies, and to facilitate the coordination of the district with local and county resources in the event of such incidents or emergencies.

A public comment period for the plan will be held from Monday, July 1, 2024 – Wednesday, July 31, 2024. Comments can be submitted by filling out the comment form below.

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Non-Discrimination Notice

The St. Lawrence-Lewis Board of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, or age in its’ programs and activities and provides equal access to the Boy Scouts and other designated youth groups. The BOCES is an equal opportunity employer. The following person has been designated to handle inquiries regarding the non-discrimination policies:​ 

Andrew Silver, Esq.
St. Lawrence-Lewis BOCES
40 West Main Street, Canton, NY 13617
(315) 386-4504

Inquiries concerning the application of the St. Lawrence-Lewis BOCES non-discrimination policies may also be referred to:

The US Department of Education
Office of Civil Rights (OCR)
32 Old Slip
26th Floor
New York, NY 10005
(646) 428-3800 (voice) or
(800) 877-8339 (TTY)

Non-Discrimination Policy & Notice of Non-Discrimination

SLL BOCES does not discriminate on the basis of sex and prohibits sex discrimination in any education program or activity that it operates, as required by Title IX and its regulations.

Inquiries about Title IX may be referred to SLL BOCES’s Title IX Coordinator, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, or both.

For student matters, the Title IX Coordinator contact is the Assistant Superintendent for Instruction, Darin Saiff, (315) 386-4504 ext. 15101.

For employee matters, the Title IX Coordinator contact is the Director of Labor Relations, Marshall Fiese, (315) 386-4504 ext. 10129.

To report information about conduct that may constitute sex discrimination or make a complaint of sex discrimination under Title IX, please contact the Title IX Coordinator as listed above.

Informal Resolution

In lieu of resolving a complaint through SLL BOCES’s Title IX grievance procedures, the parties may instead elect to participate in an informal resolution process. SLL BOCES does not offer informal resolution to resolve a complaint that includes allegations that an employee engaged in sex-based harassment of an elementary school or secondary school student, or when such a process would conflict with Federal, State, or local law.

Supportive Measures

SLL BOCES will offer and coordinate supportive measures as appropriate to restore or preserve that person’s access to SLL BOCES’s education program or activity or provide support during SLL BOCES’s Title IX grievance procedures or during the informal resolution process.

For complaints of sex-based harassment, these supportive measures may include, as deemed reasonable by SLL BOCES, one or more of the following:

  1. counseling
  2. restrictions on contact
  3. leaves of absence
  4. extensions of deadlines
  5. adjustments or change in assignment(s)

SLL BOCES may modify or terminate any supportive measures if SLL BOCES determines that such measures are no longer reasonable, are no longer necessary, or are no longer effective.

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NY and Federal Labor Law

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Parents Bill of Rights

Data Protection Officer: Darin Saiff (315) 386-4504 ext. 15100

The purpose of the Parents Bill of Rights is to inform parents (which also include legal guardians or persons in parental relation to a student, but generally not the parents of a student who is age eighteen or over) of the legal requirements regarding privacy, security and use of student data. In addition to the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), Education Law §2-d provides important new protections for student data, and new remedies for breaches of the responsibility to maintain the security and confidentiality of such data.

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Records Access Officer (FOIL)

Records Access Officer: Patti Rowan

Fulfilling FOIL Requests

The BOCES will provide copies of records in the format and on the medium requested by the person filing the FOIL request if the BOCES can reasonably do so regardless of burden, volume, or cost of the request. The BOCES may charge a fee for copies as permitted by law and regulation. 

The BOCES may require a person requesting lists of names and addresses to provide a written certification that they will not use the lists of names and addresses for solicitation or fundraising purposes and will not sell, give, or otherwise make available the lists of names and addresses to any other person for the purpose of allowing that person to use the lists of names and addresses for solicitation or fundraising purposes. 

Requests for Records via Email

If the BOCES has the capability to retrieve or extract electronic records with reasonable effort, it will provide the records, electronically upon request. The BOCES will accept requests for records submitted in the form of email and respond to those requests by email using forms supplied by the BOCES.

When the BOCES maintains requested records on the Internet, the response will inform the requester that the records are accessible via the Internet and in printed form either on paper or other information storage medium. 

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Reports

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School Report Cards

View indicators of SLL BOCES performance in Career & Technical Education, Alternative Education, Adult Career & Technical Education, Adult Basic Education, Special Education, Special Education Enrollment and Tuition in BOCES Programs, State Testing Program and Professional Development.

View the 2022-2023 Report Card.

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Title IX

Title IX is a federal law that prohibits discrimination based on sex in educational settings that receive federal funding. Access SLL BOCES Title IX information.

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