MAUSD exploring ‘Portrait of a Learner’

Since the fall of 2024, UP for Learning, a Waterbury nonprofit education transformation organization, has been partnering with Mount Abraham Unified School District on a multi-phase journey to create a “Portrait of a Learner” that will ultimately guide and inspire a revitalized strategic plan for the district.

Voters in the Mount Abraham Unified School District on Town Meeting Day decisively approved a $34,894,443 fiscal year 2026 budget. They voted in favor of the spending plan, 1,280-596.

Bristol-area voters on Tuesday agreed to allow the Mount Abraham Unified School District to use up to $1.04 million from its Capital Reserve Fund to help pay for replacing Mount Abraham Union High School’s roof.

The Mount Abraham Unified School District Board late last month got a chance to hear from some of the district’s principals about the systems and resources in place for supporting students.

Bristol’s Town Meeting Day ballot on March 4 will feature a three-person race for two seats representing the town on the Mount Abraham Unified School District Board.

New Haven voters on Town Meeting Day will weigh in on a two-person race for one of the town’s seats on the Mount Abraham Unified School District Board.

When voters in the Mount Abraham Unified School District head to the polls on Town Meeting Day they’ll be asked whether to allow district officials to transfer up to $1.04 million from MAUSD’s Capital Reserve Fund to the general fund. The money would help … (read more)

The Mount Abraham Unified School District board on Tuesday agreed to send a $34,894,443 fiscal year 2026 budget to voters that reflects a decrease in total spending of $486,753, or 1.38%, from the current year.

The leaders of the local school districts are excited to learn more details about the governor’s plan to reduce the number of Vermont school districts to five.

A lot can change in a month, particularly during the budget-building season — sometimes for the better.

What will it take for the school district to keep the overall tax increase in the coming year to only 6%? Superintendent Patrick Reen on Tuesday presented a budget proposal that would do that, in large part by cutting more than 15 jobs — many of them in t … (read more)

The Mount Abraham Unified School District is looking to hear from community members about what skills, characteristics and experiences they think all district students should have in order to succeed in and outside of school.

With the budget building season upon us, the Mount Abraham Unified School District Board on Tuesday got another look at what a district spending plan for fiscal year 2026 could look like. On Tuesday board members set a goal of limiting overall tax rate in … (read more)

The Mount Abraham Unified School District Board would like to learn more about the potential impacts of moving sixth-graders into Mount Abraham Union Middle/High School.

A new partnership between the Addison Northwest and Mount Abraham Unified school districts will allow students in those Vergennes- and Bristol-area learning communities to take certain classes at either of the districts’ high schools while maintaining enr … (read more)