Schools add more in-person learning

ADDISON COUNTY — Area secondary schools are making plans to return to more in-person instruction in May, but it’s uncertain when — and if — all students will be back in the classrooms full-time. Middlebury Union High and Middle schools will be the first to go back, with grades 7-12 returning to four days of in-person school, beginning this coming Monday, May 3. MUHS Principal Justin Campbell told students and families in an email that the daily schedule — advisory (homeroom), start and end times of periods, … (read more)

Letter to the editor: ACSD wrong to bring back kids

The Addison Central School District’s announcement that it will return students in grades 7-12 to full capacity, in-person instruction with 3-foot physical distancing instead of the current 6-foot rule, flies in the face of CDC guidance on school safety a … (read more)

MUHS and MUMS return to in-person classes at last

MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury-area secondary school-age students on Monday, May 3, will begin attending in-person classes four days a week, instead of the current two. Addison Central School District Superintendent Peter Burrows announced the transition in a We … (read more)

ANWSD urges guideline compliance so in-person school can continue

VERGENNES — Addison Northwest Superintendent Sheila Soule told the ANWSD board at its Nov. 16 meeting that the school district is taking steps to prepare for remote learning after the week-long Thanksgiving break, including sending internet devices home w … (read more)

K-6 will soon go full-time in ANWSD

VERGENNES — Addison Northwest School District’s two elementary schools next week will take the first steps in what will be — if all continues to go well — a three-week phase-in to return all ANWSD pupils from kindergarten to grade 6 back to fulltime, in-s … (read more)

ACSD to return its youngest kids to full in-person learning

MIDDLEBURY — The Addison Central School District announced on Friday that it would move from its hybrid model to full in-person learning, five days a week, for students in pre-kindergarten through sixth grade next month. Pre-K through second grade will ma … (read more)