As many a high school prankster has learned, pulling the fire alarm when there’s no fire is against the law. A lunchroom fight prompted the school principal to pull the alarm to evacuate the building. Now she’s in detention.
The new building is being touted as a “dorm for the 21st century student” and will be “truly inclusive,” vice president of student affairs Smita Ruzicka said in a July 4th article.
Program seeks to combat the staffing shortages plaguing VT health care through hands-on experience.
For some states, no amount of federal dollars is worth denying parental rights.
Academics across America are praising the vicious attack on Israel.
Vermont college students have helped to start the Student Declaration 2023 which is to ensure that overzealous COVID-19-related mandates are never repeated again on their school campuses.
Some Plainfield and Marshfield residents want an armed cop in their local school.
Former Rep. Dave Sharpe (D-Bristol) just penned a truly execrable op-ed blaming private schools, lack of funding for public schools, and 60s era “white-flight” for the growing school performance gap
It’s doubtful children riding on Wi-Fi equipped buses will work on homework. It’s certain that pediatricians are concerned about exposure to increased wireless radiation.
A Yale professor should be removed from the faculty for her pro-Hamas invasion statements, a petition begun by a Vermont man says.
The project will allow those affected by bullying and harassment in Vermont schools to share their stories either through a confidential form, an interview or a small group discussion.
As attorney fees in Chieftain appeal approach $10,000, Green Mountain school board votes to stop paying.
Opt-out forms are not the only service VFA does, they will also provide training for those who are interested in running for school board.
On Monday morning the local school board and superintendent’s office as well as the Department of Education were all reached out to for comment and have not yet responded.
Our most widely read/viewed news outlets are more concerned with protecting a politically powerful special interest than they are about informing the public.
A Woodstock snowboarding coach fired for discussing transgenderism with a student is suing the school for infringing on his First Amendment rights.
“The Secretary will be dedicated to reducing educational inequities in all schools, particularly in communities that have experienced the most substantial demographic declines.”
UVM offers discount rates to employers seeking access to their student body based on race and sexual identity.
Winooski boasts the only school district in the state where most students are people of color, and school leaders are prioritizing it.
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.
“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.”
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.
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.
Reading scores in Vermont and New Hampshire were decreasing well before the pandemic.
“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.
“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.
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.
What made America the world’s education leader? The evidence points to the importance of local, rather than state regulations and to grassroots action rather than top-down campaigns.
If the organization has been physically abusing children and defrauding the taxpayers I can see where they might be in fear of someone shining a light on their improprieties.
It is this mentality of ‘compassion without comprehension’ that results in the abuses of people by those in positions of power who demand full compliance without question.
New busses fall short on planned benefit to the environment and to the community.
As eminent economist Thomas Sowell points out, if you cannot get beyond elementary school math, you are literally frozen out of the vast majority of jobs in this country.
The Zinn Education Project is the origin of resources including “Rethinking Ethnic Studies” and “Repair: Students Design a Reparations Bill.”
What makes confronting these people and their ideas sometimes challenging is they present themselves at a moral high ground working for justice and doing what’s right.
While Vermont Democrats are trying to eliminate choices for Vermont kids
Ousted coach David J. Bloch maintains he was unfairly fired the day after he joined in a brief private, non-disruptive discussion started by two of his athletes on Feb. 8 about a transgender student.
There was a time when public schools were locally funded and locally controlled. The focus was teaching students the tools for discovering and living life-not social experiments.
A Bus Safety Barbecue scheduled for Wednesday has been moved to Thursday due to expected rain.
If you are a parent, grandparent or a concerned citizen, please help Vermonters for Vermont Initiative introduce this resolution at your local schoolboard meeting.
Many students decided to take a leave of absence during the pandemic and are now graduating later than scheduled.
Douglas said Middlebury College got it wrong and succumbed to “cancel culture” conduct.
Students in Vermont public schools at the University of Vermont will not need a Covid-19 vaccination as a prerequisite for enrollment.
A bill in the Vermont House would allow families to more affordably consider a homeschool path for their child.
The Legislature’s response to a U.S. Supreme Court decision restricts admissions policies, adds reporting requirements on all Vermont independent schools (secular and religious), restricts out of state options for students in choice districts, and places a moratorium on the approval of new independent schools.
Although one school district has removed racial barriers from affinity groups following a lawsuit, the State of Vermont continues to promote race-based affinity groups.
Homeschooling in Vermont has trended steadily upward since the 80’s. It is the only form of education that has not lost numbers over the years as parents look at issues in the institutional settings.
The Brookhaven Treatment and Learning Center in Chelsea lost their entire gymnasium and more.
The day after the founder of the highly successful Woodstock High snowboarding team expressed his opinion about male athletes’ physical advantages, he was called into the superintendent’s office and fired.
Stymied by the Supreme Court, the Biden administration announced a reduced plan to wipe out federal student debt for “only” 804,000 borrowers.
As part of the $650,000 investment, the university is funding a full-time, year-round position for an editor of student stories with the Community News Service at UVM.
Six buildings were evacuated: Jeffords Hall, Stafford Hall, Health Science Research Facility, Main Campus Greenhouse, Given, and Rowell.
Gatherings by Vermonters seeking information about de-transitioning should be banned from public schools, Outright Vermont says.
Parents have options: try to change the system, or leave it for a better alternative. With both options, there are people ready to help.
A private school just down the road from Burlington High School also wants a new campus.
The State of Vermont has agreed to pay the Allens $125,000, reinstate Travis Allen as coach and remove Blake Allen’s disciplinary record – and change some pro-trans messaging in schools.
A Cherokee and U.S. senator from Oklahoma takes issue with a children’s book blaming white people for creating the concept of race.
The Native American Guardian’s Association (NAGA), based in North Dakota, has congratulated the Green Mountain School Board for reinstating the Chieftain team name for Green Mountain High School in Chester.
NH State Rep. Tommy Hoyt attacks parents, Catholic priest, and more to a constituent in confirmed email.
The director of the U.S. National Science Foundation used an acrostic to help his fellow UVM grads remember his commencement speech.
The embattled Mount Ascutney School Board is considering holding public forums to address lingering public dissatisfaction over the BLM-related firing of Principal Tiffany Riley and the subsequent $650,000 settlement the school district paid her.
About 40% of UVM students will pay no tuition this fall, and Vermont resident enrollment is up.
The ‘rebels’ to whom the mascot name refers are the Revolutionary War-era Green Mountain Boys, rebelling against British colonial authority.
More anti-harrassment protections for employees? Check. For renters? Check. For students? Wait a minute…..
A Chittenden County school is teaching sex ed to middle schoolers without using the words male and female, or man and woman.
Veteran executive problem-solver Mike Smith is out of retirement as the new president of Vermont State University. The deplored ‘all-digital’ library plan is on hold. But fiscal challenges remain.
None of the State’s findings/reports contain substantial evidence of widespread discrimination in Vermont. They don’t even provide the number of occurring incidents.
UVM’s announcement of a ‘voluntary resolution’ of a federal investigation into campus anti-semitism contains no admission of wrong-doing, no apology, and no specific plans to address anti-semitism.
Middlebury College quietly removed Mead’s name from the marble building on the morning of Sept. 27, 2021, for what it said was his role “in promoting eugenics policies in the state that led to the involuntary sterilization of an estimated 250,” the lawsuit filed by former Gov. James Douglas stated.
The University of Irasburg is set to return this April after a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic.
Critics of H483 worry it will create hardships – and maybe even close – private schools now receiving public tuition.
Physical libraries are protected by proactive legislators.
Only men could oppress women for thousands of years, then turn around, put on a dress, and complain they are the most marginalized group in society.
Discriminating against another person causes long-term outcomes for youth, Sen. Becca White said on a CNN interview. “They’re hearing rhetoric that tells them they are not valuable, that they’re dangerous.”
The chief of Vermont’s Agency of Education will leave the job next month.
Half of the Senate is signing on to a bill to keep state libraries open and the book collection intact.
Catamount Run will add more than 550 beds at City Center by Fall 2025.
“We do not support S.66. It would significantly alter the independent school landscape in Vermont,” Agency of Education Secretary Dan French said.
A Vermont education newsletter reports on a bi-racial Bennington County teacher who sued and won for wrongful termination.
Our purpose is to understand what happens when a community organizes itself around these ideas. It will either grow into the utopia that all dream it will, or it will become a dystopian warning.
The unprecedented move of making the Northern Vermont University library almost all-digital has raised conflict of interest questions about Vermont State College Board Vice-Chair Megan Cluver, who is also a senior manager of Deloitte, a digital technology firm.
A terrifying hoax about active shooters in 21 schools was among several highly concerning Vermont school headlines last week.
The Woodstock Elementary School became unsafe when administrators failed to act promptly after a nine-year-old threatened to shoot another student, a teacher and school board member said.
Students from private schools and home schoolers gathered today at the Vermont State House to celebrate National School Choice Week.
Vermont schools face 1,000 teacher and staff vacancies midway through the school year.
The unjustified firing was devastating and essentially ended a successful 20-year education career, former Windsor High School principal Tiffany Riley said.
Awareness of the Holocaust is waning. Vermont educators and lawmakers want to reverse that trend.
The good news is that Vermont schools have the lowest ratio of students to counselors in the nation. The bad news is that mental health services are lacking amid a post-pandemic crisis.
Two twins from Bristol have organized a Holocaust Remembrance Day. Never forget!
A new umbrella advocacy group wants equity protected as the Legislature debates court-mandated changes in the private school voucher system.
Rather than allow Vermont’s fourteen approved independent religious schools to accept tuitioning students, many legislators would rather scrap tuitioning to independent schools altogether.
The school’s planned BIPOC Affinity Group is not open to all students and therefore violates the 1964 federal civil rights act, the lawsuit claims.
A Vermont education newsletter says the tension is growing between elected school board members and their senior administrative appointees.
In the elementary school serving the Caledonia County town of Newark (pop. 589), masks aren’t a thing of the past. The local superintendent wants a mask mandate opponent to butt out.
“The next step is to wait to see if the school board responds to our request to put this on the next school board agenda for January 5,” petition co-organizer Nichole DeLong said Monday. “We will continue this fight – we are just warming up.”
In 2020 the Milton school board ‘buckled like cheap lawn chairs’ and authorized planning for a school district equity policy. Now more than 1000 Milton residents have signed a petition to stop the policy’s adoption.
From widespread student-led vandalism at UVM to Vermont teachers demanding mental health training, the signs of mental trauma in Vermont schools abound.
The Milton school board appears to be managed by the administration, rather than the school board managing the administration as duly elected representatives of Milton’s citizens.
Social media video captures an argument between a trans woman and some Bradford area high school students in a Burlington parking garage. But what really happened?
Vermont school districts are seeing one-sided implementation of the Bill of Rights.
“Access to professional counseling on gender identity and gender transition shall be made available in a confidential manner to students in each school,” a proposed State Board of Education regulation says.
