Community Forum: SVUUSD budget deserves support

Members of the school board have tried to gather information as to why this budget proposal, with an increase of less than one percent in spending per weighted pupil, and an equalized tax rate decrease of less than one percent, was unacceptable to 59% of our voters.

Letter to the editor: ANWSD should preserve Walden

Addison Northwest Supervisory Union was extremely short-sighted in taking an axe to the VUHS Walden Program in their too-quick budget revision after the first one was rejected.

Lincoln Community School welcomes a new principal

Melissa “Brooke” King, a Burlington resident, is assistant principal of Colchester’s Mallets Bay School, a third- through fifth-grade elementary school of around 465 students. 

ANWSD budget revote is Tuesday

After defeating an Addison Northwest School District spending plan on March 5, residents of the five-town district will vote on a slightly smaller budget this coming Tuesday.

Mt. Abe lowers budget by $1.3M

The Mount Abraham Unified School District Board on Monday adopted a revised spending plan for fiscal year 2025, and asked district voters to approve it on April 16. 

Bridport/Shoreham principal to step down

Matthew Brankman, principal of Bridport Central and Shoreham Elementary schools, will step down at the end of this academic year.

ANWSD considers cuts, lower taxes, March revote

A second vote on an Addison Northwest School District budget proposal could occur as soon as March 26. 

MAUSD board aims to reduce tax rate increase

Voters in the Mount Abraham Unified School District could field another spending plan for the 2024-2025 academic year before the end of this month, with district officials eyeing March 26 as a possible revote date. 

Letter to the editor: ACSD officials thankful for school budget support

The Addison Central School District Board would like to extend its deep gratitude to the ACSD community for its support of the FY25 budget.

School budgets take a hit statewide

Voters struck down close to a third of school budgets across Vermont on Tuesday, the highest proportion in at least a decade, according to the Vermont Superintendents Association. 

County voters reject most proposed school budgets

In all school districts, boards struggled with the double-digit rising costs of health insurance for their employees, general inflation and the loss of federal money started during the pandemic.

Mt. Abe’s spending plan falls 228 votes short

Voters in the Mount Abraham Unified School District on Town Meeting Day narrowly defeated the proposed district budget for the 2024-2025 academic year and opposed by a much larger margin the purchase of the building that houses the district’s central offi … (read more)

ANWSD residents defeat board’s $28.3M budget

In commingled balloting in the five Addison Northwest School District communities, the ANWSD board’s Fiscal Year 2024-2025 (FY25) budget proposal of $28,232,078 was defeated on Tuesday, 1,282-1,012, or about 56-44%.

Brandon-area towns say no to OV spending

In what’s shaping up to be a season of “nay” in the area, the proposed FY25 budget for the Otter Valley Unified Union School District was rejected by district voters on Tuesday, with 891 votes (40%) in favor and 1,325 votes (60%) against.

ACSD, Career Center budgets are approved

Voters in the Addison Central School District communities of Bridport, Cornwall, Middlebury, Ripton, Salisbury, Shoreham and Weybridge went to the polls on Tuesday to approve a proposed FY’25 preK-12 spending plan of $50.6 million by a convincing 2,081-1, … (read more)

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