It’s no secret that many legislators in the majority party are openly hostile to Vermont’s independent schools and are resentful that many do a better job of educating children for less money than their public school counterparts.
Decisions made about mandatory masking and vaccination at the NEA annual meeting this week in Chicago matter to Vermont because during the pandemic, it became clear that what teachers wanted, they often got.
With beaucoup bucks from a national journalism not-for-profit, UVM is expanding its training for news reporters of all ages.
The tiny town of Canaan in the northeasternmost corner of the state is the latest to suffer a school safety threat.
Problem: students don’t want the milk that comes with subsidized meals, but schools don’t get paid by the feds if the kids refuse it. Solution: give the milk to local food shelves, or feed it to pigs.
“The attacks will continue as long as they serve the agenda of some, empower the perpetually angry, feed the social media frenzy, and bring clicks to websites,” Robert Nied said in his letter of resignation.
School resource officers aren’t welcome on the premises of several Vermont high schools, but many others see the value in an on-duty police officer.
If Middlebury College ever bragged on alum and former Vermont Gov. Jim Douglas in the past, it may not have that right anymore: Douglas is sort of disowning his alma mater.
A federally-funded grant will move Vermont closer to universal afterschool and summer programs.
Randolph students disciplined for profanity-by-association chant, “Let’s Go Brandon.”
A record number of applicants has allowed the university to select its highest-achieving incoming class ever – note the average 3.8 GPA.
The champion of parental rights in Essex – Westford schools has resigned, citing frustration over the hypocrisy of board leadership.
The rapid turnover of Vermont school superintendents continues.
Burlington High School administrators still haven’t told parents the Gay Student Union walkout on March 11, or their role in it, a concerned parent says.
The Vermont-educated psychologist who outed Burlington’s school gender ID ed program to Fox News host Laura Ingraham will continue to investigate “the most woke school district in America.”
A young former firefighter from Franklin is one of 58 Truman Scholars nationwide.
A new flag policy passed Randolph area school board means the Black Lives Matter flag must come down.
A Chick-Fil-A fundraiser for the Randolph High School baseball team has been cancelled “because of the rancor this choice stirred in our communities.”
For kids who don’t do sports, Jr. Iron Chef is the biggest competition of the year.
Controversial Burlington school webinar is no longer available for public viewing.
News coverage of Burlington’s gender ID education program has gone national.
An Essex school changed its registrar records to reflect a student’s chosen gender identity, according to the school district’s annual report.
UVM students are stealing residence hall exit signs this year. They can be returned, no questions asked, tomorrow. But after that….
A Substack columnist, with help from a small army of volunteers, is publishing information about the Burlington School District’s gender identity education program.
Two serving military men with different views on parents’ rights and school choice are running for one open seat on the Essex-Westford school board.
The University of Vermont will lift its mask mandate March 19.
Named for a sophomore who died in 2020, a resource center for BIPOC students opens today at Northern Vermont University in Johnson.
Vermont public schools, in partnership with the largest abortion chain in America, must provide free condoms to students as young as 12 – even if their parents object.
Dartmouth’s eleventh-hour cancellation of a student event featuring journalist Andy Ngo due to “safety” concerns was actually driven by censorship.
Starting a week from Monday, Vermont school students will no longer be “directed” to wear masks by the State of Vermont.
School districts will have to eliminate repressive, discriminatory mascots, if a bill approved by Senate Education becomes law.
A southern Rutland County supervisory union and a parochial school in South Burlington are going mask-free. Others are waiting for more info from the State.
A mask freedom advocacy group is asking other Vermonters to petition the Agency of Education to end its ‘guidance’ requiring masks in schools.
Home schooling is up 50% over pre-pandemic levels, and true school choice is down – as shown by the Agency of Education is fighting the dissolution of unified school districts.
UVM Board of Trustees voted to establish a School of the Arts, eliminate majors in Greek and Latin, and combine physical science and human behavior in Earth Sciences.
A social media site dedicated to exposing rape culture at UVM lists 340 reports of sexual assault.
The growing amount, magnitude and complexity of student violence, vandalism, and sexualized and suicidal behaviors are overwhelming public schools.
Home schoolers and school choice supporters are invited to a free luncheon at Capitol Plaza in Montpelier tomorrow.
The annual School Choice Week luncheon at Capitol Plaza will feature a strong homeschooling focus this year.
Omicron is too quick for contact tracing and PCR tests. So the Agency of Ed is moving to at-home antigen testing instead. But will there be enough tests?
Those vacant Vermont teaching positions are slowly but steadily getting filled.
School officials admit a Brattleboro first-grader was vaccinated for Covid-19 against his parents’ will.
About 75 people gathered Thursday evening July 8 in Orleans to learn more about how Critical Race Theory (CRT) is being taught in our schools. What they heard from middle school and high school students surprised many.
Gender fluidity is a religion because it affirms that individuals have an identity which transcends physical reality.
Tuesday, April 13, School choice supporter and BLM organization critic Liz Cady won a three-year seat, beating six-year incumbent and self-described racial and climate justice activist Liz Subin.
A Vermont school district wants Wednesday afternoons to be kid-free.
The Agency of Education says student input is required for schools to receive their share of $2 million allocated to boost student vaccination.
Federal grant records show the U.S. Department of Education has awarded millions of taxpayer dollars to fund critical race theory training for future educators at several colleges across the country.
By allowing the pornographic ‘Gender Queer’ graphic novel to remain on its middle school/high school library shelves, the Essex/Westford school board is demonstrating tacit approval.
The state’s new special education spending formula is a disaster for poor, rural schools, a Northeast Kingdom school board chair says.
If schools won’t disclose curriculum to parents – as already required by federal law – new federal legislation would empower parents to sue.
School officials admit a Brattleboro first-grader was vaccinated for Covid-19 against his parents’ will.
A Brattleboro family is furious that their first grader was vaccinated for Covid-19 without their permission at school, according to New Hampshire news website Granite Grok.
The controversial NEK school superintendent who accused anti-CRT advocates of “McCarthyism” will leave at the end of the school year.
The U.S. Secretary of Education will visit elementary school vaccination clinics in Burlington today.
The VT School Board Association stated yesterday its unhappiness with the national group’s letter suggesting that upset parents are domestic terrorists.
After the National School Boards Association sent a letter to President Biden labeling parents as domestic terrorists, more than half of state school boards – but not Vermont’s – have distanced themselves from the association.
Denying parents access to curriculum violates federal law.
New teaching methods make it impossible to provide classroom curricula to interested parents, the Essex-Westford School District superintendent says.
The mom who faced arrest or loss of custody of her child over the school masking policy wants support at the Nov. 15 Lowell Graded School board meeting.
Having a doctor’s note wasn’t enough – either they leave with their mask-free second grader, of face arrest or loss of custody, a state trooper told two Lowell parents.
Vermont’s teacher and substitute shortage is going from bad to worse.
Harwood Union School District’s $59.5 million bond proposal failed 2,599 to 975.
Congressman Peter Welch addresses aging schools and the proposed $1 trillion infrastructure bill on a visit to Burlington High School.
Bennington elementary school administrators last week ordered a Shelter in Place in response to a student uttering a racial slur.
UVM Board approves President Suresh Garimella’s plan to extend the University’s tuition freeze for the fourth consecutive year.
A controversial graphic novel featuring explicit drawings of gay sex is in circulation at Essex High School.
Vermont Fish and Wildlife is offering a virtual program for elementary school classes designed to get kids outside with their teacher and learn about Vermont’s local wildlife.
The Thatcher of Thatcher Brook Primary School in Waterbury was discovered to be a slave owner. Time for a name change.
Masking will remain in all Vermont public schools until January 18.
Members of the board of directors of school ‘equity’ contractors are also on local school boards awarding contracts. Conflict of interest?
The misery of American Indians is due in part to the federal government imposing socialism on native peoples, Charlie Kirk tells a UVM socialist.
Don’t use the words ‘boy’ or ‘girl’ in sex ed. Girls are ‘people with uteruses.’ It’s all in the public school guidelines, thoughtfully provided by Outright Vermont and Planned Parenthood.
The chair of the Essex-Westford school board – now living in Grand Isle County – has resigned. The board will select a replacement to serve until April.
To some Vermonters, the well-publicized incident of a seven-year-old trashing a classroom and terrorizing fellow students illustrates the need for school choice.
UVM kept prices down and added customer value. Business is booming.
Some Vermonters are standing up to the threats of a weaponized U.S. Department of Justice. Others aren’t.
Parental permission is NOT required for schools to learn about students ‘ vax status, Essex parents learned Tuesday night.
A huge, new gob of data will help researchers using the UVM supercomputer study climate change and “the spread of online misinformation,” UVM said Sept. 27.
A former governor and major Middlebury College donor will have his name stricken from the school chapel, due to his strong advocacy for Vermont eugenics legislation in 1914. Better late than never!
Three more Essex-Westford school board members are now on record opposing flying the BLM flag on school property. Two board members supporting the flag are up for election next spring.
The pro-CRT school board chair in Essex won’t resign even though she no longer lives in town.
UVM’s president wants to freeze tution for the fourth straight year and raise $$ to help low-income students.
A mask-free girl is being kept in guidance counselor’s room with no peers, teacher or window.
Hardwick’s new high school principal yesterday compared burning the American flag with other forms of protest. Offended parents and students want an apology.
“I think there is personal liberty,” Scott said at this week’s press conference. “The parents don’t have to send their kids to school. There’s home schooling. They can find another school.”
Felix Hume says students don’t bully him about not wearing a mask – just the grown-ups.
An estimated 20-25 students enrolled in Vermont Catholic religious schools are having their tuition paid by their local “tuitioning town” school districts.
Federal pandemic $$ goes for back-to-school cash for needy families.
A Barre resident asked the local school superintendent about Black Lives Matter curriculum, teacher training, and materials on display.
The BLM flag will continue to fly when Essex schools open – contrary to the original agreement.
What version of civics education will the Vermont Secretary of State’s office produce?
After the first few weeks, students and staff at schools with 80% or more eligible students vaccinated won’t need to wear masks – except for the unvaccinated.
Coming to Vermont August 5-7 is K. Carl Smith, retired U.S. Army officer and nationally recognized author, speaker and the creator of the Frederick Douglass Republican Engagement Strategy.
More details are expected next week, but Vermont Health Commissioner Mark Levine seems to favor masking Vermont public school children this fall.
Friday, July 30 at 6:30 pm four speakers will take to the stage at The Whetstone Church in Brattleboro for a two hours discussion on Critical Race Theory/Equity.
Across the Connecticut River, state tuition may now go to private schools. What’s stopping Vermont?
CRT forces people to define themselves as either a good person or “some unhuman composite,” UVM Prof. Aaron Kindsvatter claimed.
Without waiting for final FDA approval, the University of Vermont will require all students to be vaccinated for Covid-19.
Popular podcaster Will Johnson will join China expert Gordon Chang and radio host/biographer Eric Metaxas in Vermont September 10-11 to educate Vermonters about the threat posed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
