Area school districts welcome new employees

New teachers, staffers and administrators are gearing up for the new school year, which begins Aug. 27. New Addison Northwest School District employees. Photo: Gabe Hamilton Teachers new to the Addison Northwest School District were in Vergennes for orientation this week. New employees include (pictured at left, from left) Emaline Gernander, second grade teacher at Ferrisburgh Central School; Ashli Cromp, speech language pathologist at FCS; Barrett Swinhart, world language teacher at Vergennes Union Middle … (read more)

Local schools are wary of how the Trump Administration’s decision to withhold anticipated federal funding from Vermont school districts could affect the services those learning communities provide.

A panel of Ripton residents and Addison Central School District officials will spend this summer brainstorming potential future uses for the Ripton Elementary School (RES) building, which closed its doors to local K-5 instruction last month due to declini … (read more)

The Addison Central School District is putting together a working group to further develop a plan to combine the Bridport and Shoreham K-5 student populations to assure them single-grade classroom instruction, beginning in the 2026-2027 academic year.

This weekend, our fourth child will graduate from MUHS, and we are filled with pride, relief, and above all, deep gratitude. This milestone was not achieved alone, and is the result of the unwavering dedication from a learning community that has supported … (read more)

As a parent of a child at Weybridge Elementary School, I strongly oppose the school board’s May 12 decision to allow a privately funded flag pole designated to fly only an American flag at Middlebury Union High School.

Engineering a five-year capital improvement plan for nine school buildings that have collectively accrued millions in repair and upgrade needs would be difficult enough. Try doing it at a time when taxpayers’ patience is stretched thin, construction costs … (read more)

Many of the roughly two-dozen Ripton children who’ll be attending Salisbury Community School this fall will see a familiar face in the principal’s office.

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.

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.

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)

The Addison Central School District board on Monday voted unanimously to shutter tiny Ripton Elementary School for the 2025-26 academic year while it sizes up the future of an RES that’s been decimated by declining enrollment.

For the first time, elementary schools in both Bridport and Shoreham are slated to offer all multi-grade classrooms beginning this fall. It’s a product of declining enrollment and an Addison Central School District policy stipulating a minimum of 10 stude … (read more)

The Addison Central School District board will hold a special meeting on Monday, March 31, to discuss — and potentially decide on — the future of Ripton Elementary School. It’s a meeting that’ll be held in open session, beginning at 5:30 p.m. in the Middl … (read more)

For more than 200 years, Ripton schools have rated high marks among local citizens for the way they’ve nourished local children intellectually, emotionally and in intangible ways. But a simple case of math could be on the verge of forcing its undoing — ma … (read more)