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.
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.
One in every five taps tested at Vermont schools and childcare facilities was at or above the level requiring that it be removed, because it has a higher chance of harming children.
“There is not a strong state-level mechanism for parent involvement in the development of Vermont education policy,” Secretary of Education Dan French said.
“Students’ access to some social development opportunities in high school were truncated by pandemic realities,” Caloiero said.
Vermont schools have been in session for three months and there are still job openings for teachers (200), food service (280), afterschool staff (400), and classroom aides (1000+).
It took three years, a U.S. Supreme Court decision and some good local lawyering, but the Vermont Agency of Education finally admitted Thursday that parents from tuition-paying towns may send their children to religious schools.
The Milton school equity policy now under review discourages ‘misinformation,’ including ‘Election-related Conspiracy Theories.’
Randolph Union High School dropped disciplinary proceedings against 14-year-old Blake Allen after the Alliance for Defending Freedom filed a lawusuit on her behalf.
Write an essay admitting your misdeeds, Randolph high school freshman Blake Allen was told by school officials after she complained about a transgender student watching her in the locker room. Well, she wrote an essay…. and now you can read every word on the Fox News website.
The Massachusetts school district insists it supports the right of free speech BUT……
What does it mean when parents tell school officials they can’t question their child about possibly criminal activities? In Randolph, not much
Her school gave Blake Allen a chance to recant with a mea culpa essay about her complaint to a transgender student watching her undress in the girls’ locker room. Failure meant suspension.
The Allen family is pushing back.
“Antisemitism, in any form, will not be tolerated at UVM,” Pres. Suresh Garimella told the UVM Board of Trustees today.
Video games actually improve some skills, a new study finds. Who knew?
Vermont students have been experiencing more mental health issues since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In the aftermath of the Randolph locker room incident, another complaining dad has been told he can’t coach at the school anymore.
If – as may be the case – Outright Vermont now has enough influence to tell submissive Vermont news organizations what they may or may not report, it is in the public interest to know more about this not-for-profit organization.
The school reconsidered its permission for a facility request for about 30 people after thousands of flyers went out publicizing a free prophecy seminar.
It’s not hate to feel uncomfortable changing your clothes while a biological male is looking at you, members of the Randolph girls volleyball team say.
UVM’s new, state-of-the-art research boat will be named after retiring Sen. Patrick Leahy’s wife Marcelle and moored at the Leahy Center on the Burlington waterfront.
A state directive says parents have no right to information about their child’s gender identity contained in school records.
A biological male refused to leave the high school girls locker room when asked, and instead watched the girls change. Later, the student reportedly threatened to kill someone after being shown media coverage.
Chronic understaffing “makes it difficult to weather the ‘typical’ absences we see, especially as we enter the Fall cold, flu and of course COVID season,” Supt. Meagan Roy said.
A biological male on the Randolph Union High School girl’s volleyball team has been changing in the girls’ locker room.
Starting in 2023, Vermont State College tuition will cost less than $10,000.
“There is often a huge disconnect between autism-related research and the actual needs of the autistic community,” says a supporter of a UVM research grant aimed at bridging the disconnect.
Students graduate from Vermont colleges and universities and then leave at a rate higher than any other state in the union.
The wealthiest school district in Vermont was created under a federal law that was among the last bills signed by President John F. Kennedy before his assassination.
Charges of anti-semitic activity at UVM were denied by the university president last week. Jewish groups say his statement blames the victims.
Rock throwing. Exclusion from student groups. Threats to lower grades.
School districts without their own secondary schools cannot deny tuition payments to approved religious schools, the Vermont Secretary of Education advised yesterday.
Amid a statewide shortage of school bus drivers, two dangerous driving episodes took place during the first week of school.
Catamount Run would be built ner Trader Joe’s and Healthy Living , with access by bikepath and bus.
A retired VSP officer will lead violence prevention in Vermont schools.
A public school adminisrator in a New England state admits his school discriminates against hiring conservative Catholics.
Vermont school districts are still down 1500 educators as the first day of school looms this week.
President Joe Biden’s student debt forgiveness plan would cover just 17% of Vermonters’ total student debt of $2.9 billion, Sen. Bernie Sanders said.
A quarter of a billion dollars. That’s how much research money UVM raked in during the last fiscal year.
New Hampshire law prevents teaching CRT. When Williamstown native Karlyn Borysenko complained, Twitter banned her.
The Burlington School Board decided Monday to ask voters for $165 million to build a new high school and tech center. Here’s the school district announcement of that decision.
The Burlington School District is short 153 educators – mostly non-classroom teachers – with August 31, the first day of school, just two weeks away.
Vermont’s schools are short almost 3000 educators, with the first day of school just days away.
With help from FEMA, Vermont’s first responders learned how to use drones for rescue work.
During the pandemic especially, Waterbury residents spending more time at home came to appreciate the little lending libraries around town – and even added to their ranks.
With less than a month before the first day of school, Vermont schools still have about 3000 unfilled positions. One main reason: educators can’t find housing to buy or rent.
A black mom from Nevada will discuss her efforts to rescue her daughter from “the gender cult ideology her school had indoctrinated her into.”
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.