The funds totaling $503,995 were made possible by the Smart Schools Bond Act – an initiative that finances high-speed broadband and wireless infrastructure, security systems and educational technologies such as computers, tablets, 3D printers and interactive whiteboards in schools.

AuSable Valley school administrators could not be reached in regard to what exactly the money will go toward.

Voters statewide approved Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s proposal in November 2014, borrowing $2 billion to help schools upgrade technology infrastructure.

“This funding will help deliver the tools and resources schools need to equip the next generation of New Yorkers to lead this state into the future,” Cuomo said in a press release.

AuSable Valley is the only North Country school district of the 16 districts across the state that received money through the Smart Schools Bond Act this time around. At the beginning of 2017, another North Country school system, the Tupper Lake Central School District, received $602,000. The money went toward upgrading the school broadband connectivity.