News Briefs
Commissioner of Education cites "uncertainty about his future."
June 3, 2008
In his annual speech to the legislature, the governor proposed leasing the state lottery, with $25 million of the proceeds going to property-tax relief and $25 million to modernization of school buildings.
January 22, 2008
The measure will require residents of high-spending school districts to endorse significant budget increases by means of a separate vote.
June 19, 2007
School districts aiming to significantly increase their spending will be required to take two votes—one to reconfirm their previous year’s budget and another to approve the new budget—under a measure approved as a compromise in the last hours before the Vermont legislature ended its session on May 12.
May 22, 2007
Legislators in Vermont look to rein in diesel exhaust from school buses.
May 1, 2007
Gov. James H. Douglas launched his third two-year term with an inaugural address last week picturing the Vermont of the near future as a center for environmental engineering. High schools specializing in math, science, and technology would dot the landscape, the Republican governor said.
January 9, 2007
Three rural Vermont school systems are making an unusual attempt to avoid the penalties their schools face under the No Child Left Behind Act, through a deft shifting of the federal funding they receive under the Title I program.
October 1, 2003
Vermont's new Strategic Reading Initiative, says co-director Nick Boke, aims ultimately to help students learn to learn.
June 19, 2002
Negotiations to revise Vermont's controversial school finance law and offer an olive branch to hard-hit wealthy towns appeared to be dead late last week.
June 6, 2001
David S. Wolk has been guided by a simple maxim as he's moved through jobs as principal, superintendent, and now, state schools chief: Educate all children as if they were your own.
July 12, 2000
