MUMS repair costs could top $45 million

Proposed improvements to the crowded middle school building include expansions to the gym, library, kitchen and cafeteria, along with new classrooms and common space.

The ACSD board on Monday voted 8-1 in favor of a plan to blend Shoreham’s kindergarten through 5th-grade students into Bridport Central School beginning next fall, and convert Shoreham Elementary School into a district Pre-K hub.

Otter Creek Child Center cut the ceremonial ribbon on its newly completed renovations that will allow it to ramp up staffing and add 77 childcare slots.

During a Tuesday forum about Act 73, ACSD Superintendent Wendy Baker described the changing education policy landscape that could shape Addison County schools.

“The Act 73 Redistricting Task Force recognizes that closing small schools and creating mega-school districts will not solve Vermont’s rising education costs.”

The Mount Abraham Unified School District Board has narrowed in on a budget target for the upcoming fiscal year, and district officials will look to meet that target without reducing staff positions other than those absorbed through attrition. 

Brandon-area school officials spent much of Saturday addressing feedback and concerns regarding a proposal that would see the reconfiguration, and closure, of elementary schools in the district, including Otter Creek Academy (OCA) elementary schools in Le … (read more)

The numbers presented to the ACSD board on Monday were a very tentative, birds-eye view of Middlebury Union High School’s repair, maintenance and upgrade needs.

At the Vermont School Redistricting Task Force’s penultimate meeting on Monday, Nov. 10, the advisory board voted to reject the only map that fulfilled the task set forth in Act 73, Vermont’s sweeping education-reform law.

The Otter Valley Unified Union school board is exploring potential reconfiguration and closure of district elementary schools including Otter Creek Academy schools in Leicester and Whiting.

Join State Rep. Peter Conlon (Addison-2) and Wendy Baker, Addison Central School District superintendent, to discuss Act 73 school redistricting on Tuesday, Nov. 18.

The majority of Vermont school redistricting task force members endorsed a proposal on Monday that would incentivize voluntary mergers of the state’s 119 school districts

The ACSD board is scheduled to vote on a proposal to serve the K-5 populations of both Bridport and Shoreham at Bridport Central School, starting in the fall of 2026.

The ACSD board will vote on whether to initiate an official closure for RES. If successful, that process would allow the town to buy back the building for $1.

The school board will evaluate several scenarios: keeping all schools open, operating two elementary schools and a regional middle/high school and operating a regional middle/high school and two elementary schools with grade banding.