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ESBR holding end-of-year fundraising campaign
Although Giving Tuesday is traditionally the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, the Expeditionary School at Black River announces that, for the third consecutive year, several generous donors have come forward to offer a Matching Funding Challenge totaling $10,400. As such, the school has extended its fundraising campaign through the end of 2024 to maximize the possibility of […]
College News
Noah DiStefano, a member of the Green Mountain Union High School Class of 2016, graduated from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK, with a master’s degree in science (archeology) with commendation in November. St. Lawrence University in Canton, N.Y., welcomed Caroline D. Tarmy of South Londonderry as a member of the Class of 2028. Tarmy […]
GM Marching Band celebrates new banner, thanks to One Credit Union
Pictured from left, with the new banner are Green Mountain student Anna Bennett, GM Principal John Broadley, Two Rivers Supervisory Union Superintendent Layne Millington, music teacher Michael Hilkert, Selina Meisenhelder and Caitlyn Stone-Humphrey of One Credit Union and GM student Owen Levy. Photo by GM art teacher Christa Valente The Green Mountain Marching Band has […]
Preliminary Future of Ed report set to offer many options, but make no recommendations Rep. Conlon goes off script claiming 'strong policy proposals'; 5.9% tax increase predicted in Dec. 1 letter
By Shawn Cunningham © 2024 Telegraph Publishing LLC There were two takeaways from Monday’s meeting of the Commission on the Future of Public Education in Vermont. The commission was given the charge to look at the education system as a whole – including funding it – with a final report due in December 2025 and […]
School restructuring options include modular classes at CAES, pre-school at CTES
By Shawn Cunningham © 2024 Telegraph Publishing LLC At last Thursday’s meeting of the board of the Green Mountain Unified School District, Superintendent Layne Millington unveiled an “Advisory Restructuring Report” that put forward three recommendations for making progress on the issues of under-utilization of Cavendish Town Elementary and over-crowding of Chester-Andover Elementary. Last year, the […]
Update on the Future: No silver bullets to cutting costs
By Shawn Cunningham © 2024 Telegraph Publishing LLC As school districts are working on their 2025-26 budgets, the deadline for the preliminary report from the state Commission on the Future of Public Education’s — including short term cost containment strategies — is fast approaching. The message from recent subcommittee meetings is that it’s complicated and […]
GM District Board agenda for Nov. 21
The Board of Directors of the Green Mountain Unified School District will meet from 6 to 8 p.m. on Thursday Nov. 21 in the Green Mountain High School Library/Media Center, 716 Route 103 South and via Zoom. To access via Zoom, click here. Below is its agenda. I. CALL TO ORDER: A. Roll call II. […]
Two Rivers Supervisory Union board agenda for Nov. 7 – UPDATED
The Two Rivers Supervisory Union board will hold its regular meeting at 6 p.m. on Thursday Nov. 7 at Cavendish Town Elementary School, 573 Main St. in Proctorsville and via Zoom. To join the meeting, go to https://trsu.zoom.us/j/82752233377 Below is the board’s agenda. I. Call to Order A. Roll Call II. APPROVAL OF AGENDA: III. […]
Springfield Rotary Club donates books to CAES students
Through the Rotary Ideals Literacy Project, Springfield Rotary Club members have donated a set of two books to 50 second- and third-grade students at Chester-Andover Elementary School. Andy & Elmer’s Apple Dumpling Adventure shares the story of a young entrepreneur named Andy who starts an apple dumpling business with his neighbor Elmer. With the help […]
Taconic & Green to hold education forums in Dorset, Londonderry this week
The Taconic & Green Regional School District is holding a public forum — “The Future of Our T&G Schools” — at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 29 at The Dorset School, 130 School Drive, and on Wednesday, Oct. 30 at Flood Brook School, 91 VT-11 in Londonderry. Both will be live-streamed on GNAT-TV. T&G provides […]
GM board votes to preview restructuring plan, overriding superintendent’s schedule
By Shawn Cunningham © 2024 Telegraph Publishing LLC In a bid to moderate reaction to an administration-generated restructuring plan for the three schools within the Green Mountain Unified School District, TRSU Superintendent Layne Millington said he would not reveal the plan until the next GM board meeting, on Thursday Nov. 21. But, following board member […]
Ed finance panel delays internal deadline for cost-containment suggestions Kornheiser calls commission timeline 'impossible'
By Shawn Cunningham © 2024 Telegraph Publishing LLC Anyone who watched the Sept. 30 meeting of the Education Finance subcommittee of Vermont’s Commission on the Future of Public Education might well have expected that this Monday’s session would see members hammering out a list of short-term cost containment ideas to present to the full commission […]
Future of Education to hold first ‘public engagement’ session on Oct. 21
The Commission on the Future of Public Education in Vermont will hold its first public engagement session from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Monday Oct. 21 at the Randolph Union Middle High School, 15 Forest Street in Randolph. This will be the first of many such sessions to be held across the state over […]
Future of Education panel sets first public input session for Oct. 21 Commenter asks to make education jargon understandable
By Shawn Cunningham © 2024 Telegraph Publishing LLC The Commission on the Future of Public Education in Vermont will hold its first in-person public feedback session from 5 to 7 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 21 at the Randolph High School/Technical & Career Center, 17 Forest St. in Randolph. It will be preceded by a full […]
Education finance panel brainstorms cost containment
By Shawn Cunningham © 2024 Telegraph Publishing LLC The Education Finance subcommittee of Vermont’s Commission on the Future of Public Education met for the second time on Monday. In the first two hours of a three and a half hour meeting, the committee received presentations by the Agency of Education and the Vermont Tax Department. […]
College News
Southern New Hampshire University in Manchester, N.H., congratulates the following students on being named to the summer 2024 President’s List. The summer terms run from May to August. Those local students are: Claudia Sammartano of Weston Noah Vittum of Springfield Eva Gagnon of Springfield Hayley Russell of Springfield Full-time undergraduate students who have earned a […]
Future of Education panel narrows focus to engagement, short-term cost containment
By Shawn Cunningham © 2024 Telegraph Publishing LLC Two months into its work, the commission that’s charged with looking at the future of public education in Vermont is preparing to hold the first of a series of public sessions on Oct. 21, with a venue still to be identified. The sessions are intended to solicit […]
Abbigale Williams awarded Andover Scholarship
Abbigale Williams is this year’s recipient of the Andover Scholarship. She graduated from River Valley Technical Center and Green Mountain Union High School and will be majoring in criminal justice at Elmira College in Elmira, N.Y. Her goal is to become a game warden. She is the daughter of Wesley Williams, one of 70 previous […]
GMUSD Board agenda for Sept. 19
The Green Mountain Unified School District Board will hold its regular meeting at 6 p.m. on Thursday Sept. 19, 2024 at the Green Mountain High School, 716 Route 103 South and via Zoom. To join the meeting go to: https://trsu.zoom.us/j/86893724427 Below is the board’s agenda. I. CALL TO ORDER: A. Roll call II. APPROVAL OF […]
Kicking off the school year in style with music and circus
By Shawn Cunningham © 2024 Telegraph Publishing LLC On a picture perfect Thursday evening, the Two Rivers Supervisory Union kicked off the school year in style with the West Philadelphia Orchestra and the Cirque Kikasse troupe performing on the playing field of Chester-Andover Elementary School with everyone in the SU’s communities invited. Playing Fields is […]
