UVM offers discount rates to employers seeking access to their student body based on race and sexual identity.
Winooski’s renovated school is ready to shine
Winooski boasts the only school district in the state where most students are people of color, and school leaders are prioritizing it.
Snowboarding team members support coach fired for transgender comments
The longtime Woodstock Union High School snowboard coach should be reinstated to his post, according to one of the two students involved in a private discussion about transgender athletes that led to his firing.
Parent of Down Syndrome girl: CVU plan allowing males in locker room ‘erasing females’
“I have a daughter with special needs, she has Down Syndrome, she can’t tell us when somebody does something to her or makes her feel uncomfortable,” Gagne said. “She doesn’t have the words to do that.”
Hornblas: Masks in schools…again?
We need to stand by Secretary French, the Vermont Agency of Education, and our local school boards when they decide to protect students, and acknowledge the harms of masking.
Killington reader performance improved during Covid shutdown
The teaching method long in use by Killington and other schools isn’t about how good readers learn to read but, rather, how poor readers try to compensate for not being able to read.
Most Vermont 3-9th graders read below grade level
Reading scores in Vermont and New Hampshire were decreasing well before the pandemic.
VPA ban on transgender protest harms all students, Christian school principal says
“The VPA banning Mid Vermont Christian School from competing in Vermont athletics harms not only its own students but students at other schools who desire to play sports at Mid Vermont through the member-to-member program,” Fogg said.
Ethnic and Social Equity Standards Working Group seeks even more social justice in VT schools
“Equity… may necessitate an unequal distribution of resources and services based on the needs of each student,” a recent report required by Vermont state law says.
Public school prevents Mid-Vermont Christian student from playing soccer over transgender controversy
For years she’s been allowed to play on the local Hartford team because her school doesn’t have a soccer program.
Now she is being told by the public school that she is not welcome to join.