New school-funding math could hurt local budgets

A new report concludes that Vermont’s decades-old method of calculating equalized pupils doesn’t reflect the state’s current educational conditions, and this is undermining attempts to provide every student with equitable opportunities.

“Cassie Fancher is a young Alice Munro, rendering the streets and back roads of rural New England via fresh, haunting and electrifying images of longing and grief,” said one of the judges.

Teachers spoke of incidents in recent days and weeks when “children were hiding and crying in fear and staff members were injured.

Very few residents showed up to a community school forum last Thursday, and those who did were outnumbered on Zoom by interested onlookers from other towns.

“The best part of this building is … everything,” Monkton Town Clerk Sharon Gomez said during the building’s grand opening on Saturday.

“This is going to be a demo day and an educational showcase,” said Lynda Malzac, a local horse trainer who helped spearhead last year’s Horse Ring rebuilding campaign.

The town of Bristol is in need of a few good number crunchers.

Lincoln residents voted in August to leave the MAUSD, and the town clerks of Bristol, Monkton, New Haven and Starksboro have been notified by the Vermont State Board of Education (VSBE) that they must organize votes in their towns to ratify Lincoln’s exit … (read more)

When Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, fell to the Taliban on Aug. 15, Jamila stayed up all night in Bridport, watching the news and talking to her family.

Middlebury College has decided to remove the Mead name because the man whose gift established the chapel, Gov. John A. Mead, advocated and promoted eugenics policies in Vermont in the early 1900s.

ADDISON COUNTY — The start of the school year always sees a mixture of trepidation and excitement. For primary and secondary school students in Addison County, that jumble of fear and exhilaration was intensified this year as both pupils and educators wer … (read more)

As thousands of Afghans desperate to leave the country converged on the airport in Kabul, Middlebury College graduate Shabana Basij-Rasikh stood in front of a furnace at an undisclosed location in the region and fed into its fire a steady diet of paper do … (read more)

The ANWSD-MAUSD Merger Study Committee has given itself eight extra months to complete its work.

I’ve become an archive nerd. I know there are some people who will read this and cheer, but for the other 99.9%, I’ll explain. A couple of years ago, in attempt to understand the finer points of various discussions in the Mount Abraham Unified School Dist … (read more)

MIDDLEBURY — After “a careful and deliberative process,” Middlebury College has decided to remove the Mead name from Mead Memorial Chapel, because the man whose gift established the chapel, Gov. John A. Mead, class of 1864, advocated and promoted eugenics … (read more)