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.

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.

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.

For kids who don’t do sports, Jr. Iron Chef is the biggest competition of the year.

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.

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. 

The VT School Board Association stated yesterday its unhappiness with the national group’s letter suggesting that upset parents are domestic terrorists.

Vermont’s teacher and substitute shortage is going from bad to worse.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

Do Orleans teachers carefully distinguish between white skin color and the academic concept of Whiteness? Are teenaged students understanding it and accepting it without shame?

At its annual meeting last week, the parent organization of one of Vermont’s most influential unions rejected a school vax and mask mandate, but backed CRT.