Non-homestead (second home, business/commercial, apartment house) property taxpayers pay more than homestead taxpayers.

For each of grades 3-8, math scores dropped from last year. Fewer students are considered proficient.

Vermont doctor Rima Carlson explains, “in my 21 years in family medicine, I have not seen this level of anxiety and depression in adolescent patients. It corresponds with the increasing hours teens spend on social media platforms.”

Representative of Vermont? Maybe not, the chair of the Legislature’s new blue ribbon commission on the future of education says.

A recent leading Blue Mountain Union School graduate maintains her academic grades were manipulated by the school officials to cheat her out of winning a prestigious, all-expense scholarship at the University of Vermont – which went to the principal’s daughter.

Special education increases alone are likely to climb by $42 million – despite declining enrollment.

The suspension is a result of behaviors at last spring’s encampment.

‘Kid’ or ‘child’ are preferred over ‘son’ and ‘daughter,’ the Vermont Department of Health advises.

Collins emphasized that remote instruction or an indefinite delay were never considered options, acknowledging the potential detriment to both students and teachers.

The Center will offer select tenants nearly 7,000 sq. ft. of shared wet labs, common areas, and flexible office space, which will allow 20 early-stage companies to tailor their laboratories according to their needs.

‘Persistent PCB contamination’ persists despite remediation efforts over the summer.

School cellphone bans are “having a bit of a moment,” the JO reports.

PCBs. Students’ climate anxiety. Phone free schools. UVM scholarship lawsuit. Etc.

Sports, no. Interschool spelling bees, drama fairs, and debate, yes.

An influx of Afghan refugees is turning around the declining enrollment at Montpelier public schools.

These types of food pantries exist on college campuses across Vermont. And they’re fairly new — the one here didn’t exist until 2020.

A classmate of the plaintiff who is the daughter of the school co-principal had her name submitted as the top student to UVM.

Recently the State government has chosen to diminish the quality and diversity of Vermont’s educational offerings at our State colleges.

Voters in the Slate Valley region declined a budget $211,000 less than the Town Meeting budget.

The Yes votes in three big school districts followed budget cuts of $1 million or more.

Seven revised budgets rejected. Four others approved on the second try.

A mailing list error appears to be the reason why some voters in Williamstown weren’t notified of the school budget revote – one of only two to pass since 33 school district budgets failed at Town Meeting.

Today, the House is likely to approve a new property/cloud/short-term rental tax bill. Tomorrow, Vermonters concerned about out-of-control taxation will descend on the State House.

Voters in one school district rejected their revised budget by a 39-61% margin.

Eleven Vermont school districts are lined up for another revised school budget Super Tuesday next week.

Two new taxes and a 15% property tax is the latest House response to the slew of rejected school budgets that one Republican lawmaker calls “an old-fashioned revolt” by taxpayers.

“Trauma kids” – including students living in homes where substance abuse is prevalent – are responsible for some of the chaotic conditions in Cabot schools.

Yesterday, six school budget revotes went down to defeat, bringing the total number of twice-rejected budgets to 11 statewide.

SUPER TUESDAY – how voters decide on seven school budgets today could affect educational funding reform coming out of the State House.

Voters in the only interstate school district rejected their school budget Saturday. So did Essex/Westford voters last Tuesday. Revised budgets in six school districts will go before voters on Tuesday.

Yesterday, a Rutland-Addison school district became the latest to see its second-try school budget go down in flames.

After more than 80 years of educating Vermonters and those from elsewhere, Goddard College is shutting down.

School voters in the Northeast Kingdom joined voters in South Burlington and Georgia voting no, for a second time, on proposed school budgets.

John and Jane Doe Taxpayer have exited the “complicit” phase and are now entering a more aware/active and, yes, skeptical “show me” phase.

The Washington Central Unified School District (Berlin, Middlesex, Worcester, Calais, and East Montpelier) announced Wednesday night that its budget had failed.

The situation was so dire that, the Campaign for Vermont reports, a Democratic state senator looking at a $3,000 property tax increase herself said the pre-H.850 property tax would “put people out of their homes.”