Education

Forced school district consolidation isn't the only obstacle to reform this year, because Vermont lawmakers will also have to poke the hornet’s nest that is school choice.

Both towns held special elections Tuesday, Feb. 10 after the Washington Central Unified School District board voted to close both schools.

The Senate Finance Committee will soon vote out a bill that attempts to curb growth in property taxes by taking the unusual step of telling school districts how much they can spend.

Vermont’s state legislators remain divided on the need for mandated district consolidation.

Three weeks into a legislative session that’s supposed to produce one of the most consequential school-governance overhauls in state history, lawmakers are knee-deep in the “inherent contradictions” that make meaningful reform so elusive.

The U.S. Department of Education opened investigations into 18 schools and colleges in 10 states over allowing transgender athletes to compete in sports that align with their gender identity.

Members of a task force created to draw new school district maps say forced mergers would unleash disruption and dislocation in an education system that isn’t yet prepared for that level of transformation.

Thetford Academy regularly sends teams to the VEX Robotics World Championship.

Gov. Phil Scott urged lawmakers during his State of the State address Wednesday to defy political headwinds and follow through on sweeping education reform legislation that passed last year but is now in jeopardy.

The panel ruled the independent school ties of two state senators who were instrumental in crafting last year’s education reform law, Act 73, did not constitute a conflict of interest.