Starksboro school awarded $4,800

Robinson Elementary School has been awarded a $4,800 grant from the Foundation for Rural Service (FRS). The grant is made possible through a partnership between Robinson Elementary School and Waitsfield and Champlain Valley Telecom. This grant will fund new Smartboard technology.

Lincoln School District officials have begun discussing what district spending could look in the upcoming fiscal year.

If finding more efficient ways to provide a quality education is important, then starting out by thinking about where we can find more money to pay for it is backwards and ignores the underlying problem.

Most of us now live better, have more, and expect more than previous generations could have even dreamed of, and that has consequences.

Efforts are underway to find Middlebury College’s next president, as current President Laurie L. Patton will leave her post at the end of the year to head up the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

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 in … (read more)

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.