Education
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Community Forum: Be brave, Little State, defend public education
Governor Phil Scott has provided his shock and aw-shucks proposal for rescuing taxpayers and claiming to improve education along the way. Finding renewed hubris with the “red wave”…
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Letter to the editor: Governor’s education plan fails on several counts
The Governor’s education plan falls way short. The changes he and Secretary Saunders propose involve massive disruptions in school administration with enormous implications for students, teachers, families, and…
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How are Vermont’s kids doing?
Addison County has made progress in preparing its children for adulthood, but it — and the state, overall — needs to make more strides to provide kids with…
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Bristol-area voters to weigh in on new roof for Mt. Abe
When voters in the Mount Abraham Unified School District head to the polls on Town Meeting Day they’ll be asked whether to allow district officials to transfer up…
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Slate Valley calls for 5.21% spending hike
Residents in the Slate Valley Unified Union School District (SVUUSD) will go to the polls on March 4 to consider a fiscal year 2026 preK-12 budget of $32,086,270.
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Mad Catters robotics team wins event
The MAUSD ELP Middle School Robotics team, The Mad Catters, came together in the fall of 2024 under the leadership of Jodi Pierce to compete in the First…
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Scholarships available to area high school seniors
The League of Women Voters of Vermont Education Fund is now accepting applications for its Winona Smith Scholarship program. Created in 1998 to honor the legacy of League…
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Salisbury teacher gets national science award
Amy Clapp — whose science contributions to Salisbury Community School have been the stuff of legend during the past quarter-century — was recently named a winner of a…
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Locals weigh in on big education revamp
Addison County’s top school administrators credited Gov. Phil Scott for taking a “bold” stab at reforming Vermont’s public education system through an announcement last week.
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Spending up 1.5% in ANWSD
The Addison Northwest School District board on Wednesday, Jan. 22, adopted a $27.653 million budget proposal to provide education for students in the 2025-2026 academic and fiscal year…
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ACSD budget OK’d for March 4 vote
Addison Central School District residents on March 4 will field a fiscal year 2026 spending proposal of $51,719,284 to run Middlebury-area schools. This plan reflects a 2% bump…
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MAUSD budget eyes decrease in spending, taxes
The Mount Abraham Unified School District board on Tuesday agreed to send a $34,894,443 fiscal year 2026 budget to voters that reflects a decrease in total spending of…
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Addison County superintendents weigh in on Scott school reform proposals
The leaders of the local school districts are excited to learn more details about the governor’s plan to reduce the number of Vermont school districts to five.
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College taps Univ. of Virginia scholar as its new president
Middlebury College has selected Ian Baucom to lead the institution as its 18th president. He will succeed former president Laurie Patton, who stepped down from the post at…
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Board approves Lincoln School District budget
The Lincoln School District Board at its Jan. 14 meeting unanimously approved a fiscal year 2026 budget to send to voters in March that calls for $5,179,244.76 in…
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Local schools weigh cybersecurity
As the Addison Northwest School District struggled with a ransomware cyberattack last week, officials at the other two big school districts in Addison County were assuring folks that…