A new bill would require Vermont public school students to take a personal finance course to graduate high school. If the bill, H.228, passes, the mandate will go into effect July 1 and apply to all public high school students graduating during or after next school year.
This unprecedented move to an all-digital library has stirred up valid conflict of interest questions regarding the role of Megan Cluver, Vermont State College System’s current vice chair and chair of the Education, Personnel and Student Life Committee.
Vermont must reimburse parents denied state tuition benefits based on their decision to send their children to a religious school, per a settlement approved by a federal judge Thursday.
The ACT 1 Ethnic and Social Equity Standards working group met online on Monday to discuss social justice issues in education policy, including a lengthy debate over what terms to use to describe non-European Americans.
Vermont’s long history of parental choice in education will come to a crashing end in 2028 if a bill designed and backed by the “Educational Equity Alliance” makes it through the Legislature.
A majority in the Vermont Legislature cling to the myth that putting all students together in the same building and giving them all the same educational environment somehow constitutes equity. Nothing is further from the truth. One-size-fits-all in reality only fits a few.
The Vermont Senate has introduced its long-promised work-around of a U.S. Supreme Court decision requiring towns with no high schools to provide tuition to approved, independent religious schools.
Vermont was once a treasured, special place, celebrated for its agrarian common sense, sustainable frugality and self-sufficiency. That is no longer celebrated at Shelburne Farms.
When the class of 2020 arrived at South Burlington High School four years ago, the students would be the first to encounter a new academic standard that administrators and educators had been working to prepare: proficiency-based learning.
A House lawmaker this week introduced a bill to protect the “academic freedom of public educators” who teach their personal beliefs regarding gender, race and other controversial topics in Vermont’s schools.
As federal funding for Vermont’s COVID-era school meal program is about to run dry, hunger advocates are pressing state lawmakers to keep the free meals going using Vermont tax dollars.
It’s time to read your town warning for this year’s annual meetings. As you do so, please consider what is certain to be the most expensive article you will be asked to approve: your school district budget.