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.
A Massachusetts company wants to put up a roughly 150-foot-tall tower at a farm on Bordoville Road that would provide radio communication. In the future, the structure also could host antennas for cellular service.
Keith Longmore, who serves on St. Albans City’s Belonging, Equity and Inclusion Committee, called the group “a fraud and an affront” at its third meeting May 10. His comments have frustrated other committee members.
Consultants commissioned by the city recommended implementing strategies to reduce inequities in exclusionary school discipline, diversifying the educator workforce, educating and training landlords and renters, and increasing civic participation among BIPOC residents.
I’ve seen reports of public slurs and hate directed at people of color. This is most disturbing when we hear about it at school events because these students — all of them — are our future. We cannot abide this intolerance.
Allegations of abuse have to be addressed immediately so that students feel their voices are being heard, two athletic directors said.
The federal legislation would grant legal status to undocumented farmworkers and offer a path to citizenship, but Vermont organizations say it would limit farmworkers’ rights to unionization and legalization and trap them in economic vulnerability.
A slate of Bennington residents have been urging town officials to quickly establish an oversight committee following repeated incidents of behavior widely considered discriminatory by Bennington police.
The study shows that Burlington’s city design causes significantly warmer conditions than necessary.
While Vermont may not become Oregon anytime soon, it is vulnerable to extreme heat waves — and it may not be ready for them.
Vermont spends handsomely on its schools, but the distribution of resources is not exactly equal. When regional cost differences are accounted for, the Green Mountain State spends more, on average, per pupil than any other state in the country. But the state also has the second-largest gap in the U.S. between its highest- and lowest-spending school districts.
“You can never wait to be invited,” one activist told students at the Governor’s Institute on Global Issues and Youth Action.
The plan will outline how Vermont, by 2025, can reduce greenhouse gas pollution to 26% below 2005 levels, with strategies to keep the percentage falling through 2050.
Vermonters gathered at parks, schools and other spots across Burlington Saturday for the first city-wide celebration of Juneteenth. The federal government also designated Juneteenth a federal holiday earlier this week. […]
