Potential Bridport-Shoreham school collaboration off — for now

Bridport’s and Shoreham’s elementary schools will both remain open for the next school year serving their own local children with multi-age classrooms.

The Mount Abraham Unified School Board has directed its committees to prepare options for the future of the school district amid evolving conversations at the state and federal level about potential changes to public education.

Chuck Davis, founder, chairman, and co–chief executive officer of Stone Point Capital, an investment firm based in Greenwich, Conn., will deliver the 2025 Commencement address at Middlebury College on May 25.

Addison Central School District officials continue to prepare the next school year that will see Ripton’s K-5 students attend classes at Salisbury Community School, which is currently recruiting a new principal.

Fourteen Addison Northwest School District students in grades 7-12 competed — and five individuals and one team won awards — in the Vermont Historical Society’s annual Vermont History Day Contest.

Mt. Abraham Union Middle/High School in Bristol proved themselves worthy to play on a national stage. On Friday, April 25, the team will represent their school in a 148-team national competition.

Orwell voters on Tuesday joined other Slate Valley Unified Union School District (SVUUSD) residents in approving a revised fiscal year 2026 public education budget of $31,623,010.

It will be a bittersweet graduation this June for the handful of Ripton Elementary School 5th-graders who’ll have the poignant distinction of being perhaps the last class to move on from RES to Middlebury Union Middle School.

Fieh Chan will officially succeed Zach Jerome as MUMS assistant principal. Since 2019 he has served in that same role at Milton Elementary School.

A new principal will take the helm of Beeman Elementary School in July. The Mount Abraham Unified School District has hired Stephanie Sumner to succeed Travis Park as the New Haven school’s top administrator.

A team of Vergennes Union Middle School students was honored for its culinary skills and teamwork at the 15th Annual Junior Iron Chef Vermont Competition, held on March 29 at the Champlain Valley Expo Center.

The Vermont House was expected to vote this week on a bill H.454, House Education Committee blueprint for revamping the financing and delivery of public-school services.

Orwell voters will go to the polls on April 15 to consider a revised fiscal year 2026 Slate Valley Unified Union School District (SVUUSD) that is $463,256 less than the spending plan voters rejected, 1,181-720, on Town Meeting Day.

Longtime Addison Central School District educator Bjarki Sears later this spring will see his career as an educator come full circle. On June 1, he’ll officially step down as principal of Salisbury Community School and reprise his prior vocation as a seco … (read more)

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