Education

The Central Vermont Career Center had hoped to expand to accommodate more students and renovated outdated classrooms, but voters across 18 towns resoundingly struck down the $149 million bond request.

The Taconic and Green Regional School District will close Sunderland Elementary School and Currier Memorial School in Danby on June 30.

While most of Vermont's Head Start centers won't run out of money in the short term, the state's largest program is dipping into reserves to stay open through November.

Officials who manage health benefits for teachers credited “bold intervention” from state lawmakers and regulators for helping to prevent premiums from spiking between 15% and 20%.

Baby wipes, doormats and dumpsters play a key role at Chamberlin School in South Burlington.

Both the University of Vermont and Middlebury College have new presidents: Marlene Tromp at UVM and Ian Baucom at Middlebury.

The school's board of trustees approved tuition hikes at a meeting on Friday, according to a university press release — the first board meeting for new President Marlene Tromp.

“There was this huge divide in, like, social grouping and connection … No one really talked to each other.”

The closest alternative, St. Johnsbury Academy, is private, and the role that one of its teachers — Vermont Senate Minority Leader Scott Beck — has had in encouraging the vote to close has prompted outcry among the Danville School’s supporters.

An analysis of data for the 2023-24 school year suggests that the state’s private schools, in general, did enroll students on individualized education programs at lower rates than public schools in Vermont. But there were important exceptions to that pattern.