137K grant to boost student portfolio plan

Posted on May 19, 2011 |

• Vergennes
• education
• VUHS

By Andy Kirkaldy

VERGENNES — Vergennes Union High School has won a $137,700 grant from the Nellie Mae Education Foundation to further the school’s effort to require students to demonstrate proficiency in self-designed portfolios before graduation.

VUHS hopes to switch to “Performance-Based Graduation Requirements” (PBGRs) by 2016, according to its grant application to the foundation.

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