MAUSD board split on merger with ANWSD

The board ultimately voted in favor, 6-5, of adopting the resolution, with board chair Dawn Griswold supplying the tie-breaking vote. 

The Article of Agreements represent your community members working toward the following priorities.

If we are serious about equity — providing all children what they need to develop to their full academic potential — we need to defeat the proposed merger on Nov. 8.

Now, it is the community’s turn. Your voice is important.

After attending the Merger Study Committee meeting on Sept. 20, we came away quite disturbed.

Merging would mean moving school governance even farther away from the students and their schools and communities.

The Addison Northwest School District has committed to moving its 6th-graders into middle school at Vergennes Union High School starting next fall.

Residents who want their name to appear on the ballot for the merged ANWSD/Mount Abe school board must submit petitions by Oct. 3.

The committee studying a potential merger of the Addison Northwest and Mt Abe. school districts discussed its next moves before a likely Nov. 8 public vote on a merger.

The committee that has been studying the possibility of merging the Bristol-area Mount Abraham Unified School District and Vergennes-area Addison Northwest School District has decided that, yes, those two districts should become one.

The town of Addison could once again own the Addison Central School (ACS) building this fall.

After two summers with limited group activities due to the COVID-19 pandemic, two summer programs for kids in the Vergennes area quickly filled to capacity this year.

Longtime Addison Central School teacher Sharon Cram, who will wrap up her 42 years as an educator this spring after two years at Vergennes Union Elementary, wasn’t too sure about school, never mind teaching, when she first attended Mary Hogan Elementary i … (read more)

Starksboro voters recently dealt a lethal, if not fatal, blow to the aspirations of a regional merger study committee to impose a full governance merger of the Mt. Abe and Addison Northwest school districts.

Starksboro voters recently dealt a lethal, if not fatal, blow to the aspirations of a regional merger study committee to impose a full governance merger of the Mt. Abe and Addison Northwest school districts. In a stunning vote tally of 221 to 0, Starksbor … (read more)