After nine overhauls of our public education system in less than 30 years, the U.S. has fallen in world standings for education, to 39th in math and 24th in reading. We are officially behind Estonia. The schools aren’t getting the job done.
A 2017 survey by the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation revealed some disturbing facts about what millennials think of communism and socialism.
With Vermont set to pay $31 million in incentives for districts that agreed to merge under the state’s education consolidation law, critics of Act 46 say the payouts are unfair and hurt poor rural areas.
The bold, new education and workforce development program has a goal of arming 70 percent of Vermont’s population with either trade or higher education credentials by the year 2025.
On Dec. 18 Gov. Phil Scott will convene an education summit to address “the crisis of affordability and how it impacts the opportunities we are able to provide our children.”
“If we keep it open as a public school, the discussion will not end, we will be at this again and again. … (But) if we turn Black River into an independent school, its destiny is in the hands of the community, not the Vermont Agency of Education.”
Independent schools may be the answer to economic prosperity in Vermont as a recent study found that Burr and Burton Academy provides over $15 million in support to Bennington County annually.
With regard to the recent threat of litigation against the Agency of Education for non-compliance, several points come to mind indicating less than sufficient business management practices in the AOE.
Middlebury College political science Professor Allison Stanger has broken her silence on the assault that occurred during conservative author Charles Murray’s campus visit in March.
“Genital reconstruction surgery, is that really something an 11-year-old kid should be learning and knowing about? No. I don’t think so,” Fiel says in the video.
I have been teaching since 1992, and this will be my last year. The reason I am leaving is that I can no longer allow myself to be subjected to the foul language and disrespect I hear in schools on a daily basis. To stay would be to go against everything I believe in.
Education leaders met at the Capitol Plaza Hotel on Wednesday to discuss public education “that works for all children.” Speakers at the conference addressed equity, special needs and Act 46.