ANWSD residents defeat board’s $28.3M budget

In commingled balloting in the five Addison Northwest School District communities, the ANWSD board’s Fiscal Year 2024-2025 (FY25) budget proposal of $28,232,078 was defeated on Tuesday, 1,282-1,012, or about 56-44%.

While lawmakers in Montpelier last week debated last-minute changes in the state’s school-funding laws, the Addison Northwest School Board met on Feb. 12 and decided not to make further adjustments to the $28,232,078 spending plan it’ll put before voters … (read more)

You might not think of circus skills such as juggling, plate-spinning and clowning as educational activities. Administrators, family members and students at Vergennes Union Elementary and Ferrisburgh Central schools would beg to differ after Troy Wunderle … (read more)

Regarding the Jan. 25 article in the Independent: “ANWSD board opts for bigger budget,” the article stated, “…Chair John Stroup said school officials will have to work hard to explain that spending is not really what’s driving the tax rates so much higher … (read more)

The Addison Northwest School District board at a Monday special meeting voted to remove $750,000 of funding for capital improvements from the budget it approved on Jan. 17. 

I am here to provide testimony on behalf of the Addison Northwest School District regarding the implications of ACT 127 on the FY25 budgeting process.

Residents of the five towns in the Addison Northwest School District in March will vote on a proposed $28,982,078 spending plan for the 2024-2025 (FY25) school year. If approved on Town Meeting Day, it would increase spending by about $3.68 million, or 14 … (read more)

The Addison Northwest School District Board took a second look at a draft Fiscal Year 2024-25 budget at a Monday Zoom meeting.

Police have not yet determined whether they will charge a youth in the killing of a Waltham woman during a fight this past Friday.

The Addison Northwest School District has filled several key leadership positions, including a middle school principal at Vergennes Union High School, an assistant principal at Vergennes Union Elementary School, and a new district-wide Coordinator of Equi … (read more)

The Addison Northwest School District Board and the Addison Northwest Teachers’ Association recently reached an agreement for a three-year contract running though the 2025-2026 school year that, according to a joint press release, will boost teachers’ pay … (read more)

A group advocating “parents’ rights” to host anti-transgender advocate speaker at school library next week.

Thank you to the students, staff and Monica Desrochers of the Addison Northwest School District who put on the Together in Belonging Community Discussion with students this past Wednesday evening in the Vergennes Union High School library.

Addison County’s three unified school districts are employing a “strength in numbers” strategy to get what they hope will be a better deal for student transportation than if they continued to broker their own deals.

Sixteen Addison Northwest School District students competed and excelled in the Vermont Historical Society’s annual Vermont History Day Contest, held at the University of Vermont’s Davis Center on Saturday, April 8.