A report issued Monday by the Vermont Student Anti-Racism Network, a group of students from across the state, calls on the state to adopt reforms aimed at social, economic and racial justice.
The pharmacy giant asked a judge to throw out charges that it had acted improperly during unexpected store closures and staffing shortages.
As the start of the school year nears, low-income and rural districts are more likely to be coming up short.
New guidance issued by the Department of Health and Agency of Education says that school nurses should play “pivotal” roles in the upcoming school year.
In a statement just after 10 a.m. Wednesday, Deputy Secretary of State Chris Winters announced that he had conceded earlier that morning.
Prospective teachers in Vermont must take the standardized Praxis test to get their license. But officials say that, for many applicants, the test is an unfair hurdle.
The Vermont Board of Education voted to allow Stowe to create its own school district, capping a yearslong campaign to withdraw from the district it shares with two neighboring towns.
Data provided by the Agency of Education shows that Vermont schools cumulatively spent about 320 school days closed, or missing at least half their kids, during the 2021-22 school year.
Last year, state officials recorded 650 bear incidents in Vermont. This year, there have been 700 and counting.
Over the past year, schools have experienced what one superintendent called a “double whammy”: a deterioration in students’ behavior, and not enough staff to deal with it.
“There's two pieces of it,” said Emma Rose McCadden, whose service dog was turned away from Burlington’s A Single Pebble restaurant Saturday. “There's what happened. And then there's the way that the internet made this into a crazy thing overnight.”
The authors of the report, which was mandated by the Legislature last year, recommended creating a new governmental entity to oversee child care and early education in Vermont.
According to some legal scholars, the U.S. Supreme Court decision around religious schools in Maine has unique consequences for Vermont — and could require the state to rethink how it funds K-12 education.
Michael Gosselin was already facing misdemeanor charges for allegedly yelling racist abuse at a woman last summer. He has now been indicted on a federal hate crime charge.
