VTDigger publishes a wide range of stories about Vermont's educational system from early childhood education issues to public and private K-12 schools to higher education. Lola Duffort is our education reporter. She can be reached at lduffort@vtdigger.org.
Lawmakers passed a bill Thursday that would put the state’s testing program on hold and provide up to $16 million to the Burlington School District. It faces an uncertain fate in the Senate, where President Pro Tempore Phil Baruth is opposed.
The bill would tighten rules on independent schools — including a provision that would mandate open enrollment for students attending with public dollars.
The literacy gap is wide. Nationally and in Vermont, more than two-thirds of fourth graders read below grade level, according to the Literacy Network.
According to a letter from the Vermont U.S. Attorney’s office, the district has satisfied the terms of a 2019 settlement following an investigation into sex-based harassment in Burlington schools.
The Hood Museum of Art and the Dartmouth Anthropology Department have discovered the skeletal remains of 15 Native Americans in its collections, the college announced Tuesday.
The families who filed suit argued that the state law permitting some students access to tuition is unfair on its face, meaning that there is no circumstance under which the law could be valid.
Former Vermont Gov. Jim Douglas has filed a lawsuit against Middlebury College alleging that its decision to remove former Gov. John Mead’s name from a chapel amounts to “cancel culture.”
Amidst an already dire staffing shortage, child care providers now face fingerprint processing delays that can take three months or more. While new hires wait for their prints to come back, they can’t be left alone with children.
UAW Local 2322, the staff union, accused the college administration of holding cost-of-living adjustments hostage. Goddard’s president said the union was refusing to accept standard contract language.
The winner and runner-up went back and forth for 10 rounds. Some of the final words included “pyrite,” “civet,” “beaucoup,” “sousaphone” and “unctuous.”