Last year’s Danville eighth grade class saw 13 out of the 30 students choose another school. In 2023, another mass migration of eighth graders occurred

Parents have the right to know what is going on with their child at school. That right is not surrendered at the schoolhouse door. 

After hearing from more than 5,000 Vermonters who overwhelmingly said, “keep our local schools and local boards,” the Task Force chose to protect the community connections that make Vermont schools more than just buildings. Just as importantly, they recognized that the research shows no cost savings from consolidation and instead put forward a plan that actually achieves those goals.

What Sam Clemens said about his demise may be true about the plan contained in Act 73. 

It’s time to hold the Unions accountable.

According to the ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, public school students cannot be forced to use “preferred pronouns” when referring to others who claim to be “transgender.”  The Court ruled that doing so is compelled speech and a violation of students’ First Amendment rights.

Gen Z wants straight A’s.

What was once a proud and local endeavor to cultivate the minds of our youth has become a labyrinth of policy, regulation, and bureaucratic entanglement—so dense and disjointed that even the most earnest reformers find themselves ensnared.

Beginning in the 1990s and accelerating with the Common Core State Standards in the 2010s, American education policymakers sought to “modernize” math instruction. The stated goal was reasonable: help students understand why math works, not just how. But the result has been a system so abstract and bureaucratic that many parents — and even teachers — struggle to follow it. Vermont remains part of that experiment, still aligning its math curriculum with Common Core as of 2024 despite years of flat test scores and growing classroom frustration.

Vermont’s EQS is failing miserably at its goal of enabling each student to achieve or exceed the performance standards approved by the State Board of Education. Vermont students are struggling with basic educational concepts, and there is no evidence that EQS is improving academic outcomes. It is unconscionable to continue to promote and spend taxpayers’ money on these programs.

Education agency admits a years-long failure as student performance nosedives

The LGBTQ-inclusive program pays students to learn about gender identity and expression, sexual orientation spectrum, contraception, and safe sex practices for the prevention of Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI’s) and HIV/AIDS:

Parents can’t exercise their rights if schools never inform them about what is being taught or how their child is being treated.

Vermont summers pass quickly, and here we are in another school year.

Will he opt Vermont in to Big Beautiful Bill’s tax credit/scholarship program?

Taxpayers and students are being ripped off, and no one is being held accountable.

This move from local to regional control is supposed to be more streamlined and efficient. But let’s think about this…

What schools must disclose in 2025 (and why Vermont isn’t all there yet)

The crisis facing Vermont’s education had its genesis, not 30 years ago but 50-plus years ago.

I’m worried that the Vermont Legislature is pulling all-nighter after all-nighter, and in a year when they look back, they will regret the very urgency compelling them forward.

Upon graduation, our students need to be aware of how steeped our country is in values that recognize both the uniqueness of our form of government and how exceptional our country is in offering Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness to all without regard to religion, race, sex, ethnicity, or other demographic factors.

What has happened in the last two or three decades that has put college operations on the front page?

Our legislature and governor are acting on behalf of organizations that are involved in the education industry complex.