MAUSD aims to lessen FY’26 tax rate hikes

With the budget building season upon us, the Mount Abraham Unified School District Board on Tuesday got another look at what a district spending plan for fiscal year 2026 could look like. On Tuesday board members set a goal of limiting overall tax rate increases in the district to no more than 6% in the coming fiscal year.

We’re halfway into the fall, 2024, academic term, and chatter suggests anxiety about the future of education and artificial intelligence.  That AI will replace human teachers entirely. Students using AI tools are always cheating. Learning to use AI isn’t … (read more)

As budget development season approaches, I have been reflecting on what the school budget represents to the members of our ACSD community.

At a recent public forum, the Bristol Republican candidate for Vermont Senate stated we should only pay for reading and arithmetic in our schools in order to cut down expenses.

As in other years, Otter Creek Audubon Society is offering Environmental Education Grants to Addison County educators.

A new school year is well underway and learning communities across the nation and in Vermont are cracking down on students’ use of cellphones during school hours.

It’s a typical Friday morning at Lincoln Community School. As the school day unfolds, the halls are filled with the sounds of students heading out to recess, gathering to hear a story in the elementary school’s library and stopping by the kitchen for a sn … (read more)

When the tax bills for Leicester and Middlebury went out this fall, they included a letter encouraging those with questions about the education property tax rates to contact Addison County State Sens. Chris Bray and Ruth Hardy, and me.

A successful reconciliation effort between Ripton parents and their local educators will allow the community’s elementary school to continue as a K-5 learning hub — at least for now.

The Addison Central School District board on Monday endorsed a new, two-year contract with ACSD support staff that among other things assures them base-pay raises of 10% in year one (2024-2025) and 6% in year two (2025-2026) of the deal.

The Mount Abraham Unified School District Board would like to learn more about the potential impacts of moving sixth-graders into Mount Abraham Union Middle/High School.

When is a class size too small in an elementary school? The answer lies in the number of peers in a classroom available to form friend groups of 2 to 5 students.

A new partnership between the Addison Northwest and Mount Abraham Unified school districts will allow students in those Vergennes- and Bristol-area learning communities to take certain classes at either of the districts’ high schools while maintaining enr … (read more)

With September well underway, Middlebury College has welcomed students back for the fall semester — around 2,700 of them.

The Mount Abraham Unified School District board is seeking to fill two vacancies — one representing the town of Starksboro and the other representing Bristol.