The Harwood Unified Union School District School Board will host a special public informational session on Thursday about the process to build a proposed 2025-26 school budget that voters will consider next spring.
Second graders at Brookside Primary School in Waterbury are looking for Everybody Wins! reading mentors.
The Snelling Center for Government announced that Brookside Primary School Co-Principal Sarah Schoolcraft of Duxbury has graduated from its Vermont School Leadership Project.
Vermont adolescents and teens are reporting less risky behavior when it comes to drug, alcohol and tobacco use while many young people say they are grappling with mental health challenges such as stress, anxiety and depression.
In keeping with his tradition, Vermont’s senior U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders has issued his annual call for entries in the 15th State of the Union Essay Contest for Vermont high school students.
The Brookside Primary School community received sad news late last week. Longtime school staff member best known as the friendly morning and afternoon crossing guard Mark Swahn passed away on Nov. 21.
Crossett Brook Middle School recently held its All-School Student-Led Assembly marking the end of the first trimester and celebrating student achievements that highlight the school’s core values to be caring, curious, and connected.
Hoping to avoid a repeat next year, local school officials held an educational forum last week with a panel discussion among state lawmakers, school administrators and an education funding expert. About 50 people attended the Nov. 19 event at Harwood Union High School.
They promise “this isn’t your grandparents’ ‘Treasure Island’” in announcing the fall production by Harwood Union Theatre.
Ahead of the annual ceremony to recognize top educators across Vermont, Harwood Unified Union School District has shared its two nominees.
Public education in Vermont is in the spotlight this year and multiple efforts are under way by state and local education leaders to take stock of Vermont’s K-12 education system from its design to its costs and funding mechanisms. Here are details on three opportunities for the public to get involved.
A transition took place last week at Harwood Union High School that restructured the administration team as Co-Principal Laurie Greenberg stepped down and staffer Jessica Deane was promoted to assistant principal.
An outbreak of the fatal Marburg virus has led Harwood Union High School to cancel its plans for the annual student trip to Rwanda in early 2025.
Vermont’s 2025 Teacher of the Year is Caitlin MacLeod-Bluver who teaches at Winooski High School and lives in Moretown.
All is well at Waitsfield Elementary School after school officials worked with Vermont State Police this morning to investigate what they quickly determined to be a hoax threat directed at multiple schools.
As the new school year settles into a routine, students at Harwood Union Middle/High School are getting accustomed to having cellphones away during the school day. But some school board members have pushed back on spending $21,000 for the phone pouches in use and even more favor the district creating a formal policy addressing cellphones in all schools.
The memorial nonprofit Launch Into Foreign Travel – or L.I.F.T for short – is hosting a fundraising concert and party on Sept. 14 at Camp Meade. The organization funds local student educational travel in honor of Moretown teen Cyrus Zschau, who died along with four friends in a 2016 car crash.
BARRE — The search for a new home for the Central Vermont Career Center has tentatively been narrowed from nearly 200 sites to two and neither is in Barre, where the center has operated since it opened under a different name in a wing of Spaulding High School in 1969.
Harwood’s plan to go cellphone-free this school year has hit a slight bump in the road. Special cases for students to store phones during the school day have not arrived in time for the start of the school year.
PUBLIC NOTICES
A policy hearing will be held at the HUUSD Board meeting on Wednesday, January 8, 2025, at 6:00 p.m.
Here are upcoming December meetings from the Central Vermont Career Center School District with agendas and Zoom links included.
The Harwood Unified Union School District will be accepting transportation bids for FY26 through FY28. Bids will be accepted starting Wednesday, November 20, and will close on Friday, December 13.
From the HUUSD
Dear guardians and staff: In 2021, the Vermont legislature passed a law requiring all schools to test for radon (see Section 12 of Act 72 (2021)). Our schools are beginning that testing process in December. Here are answers to some frequently asked questions about radon testing.
As most of you know our school budget failed on Town Meeting Day. There is another vote that closes on April 30th, on a revised number that reduces spending by almost $2 million.
Dear Harwood community, we write to ask you to support the school district budget during Town Meeting Day on Tuesday, March 5.
I am kindly requesting your participation in the online survey for the superintendent that the school board and I developed earlier this fall.
Dear HUUSD Community - you are invited to participate in discussions on the future of Harwood Union High School.
The following is the full text of a statement that Harwood Unified Union School Board Chair Kristen Rodgers of Moretown read at the board’s April 19 meeting prior to its vote on whether to warn the proposed revised Restraint and Seclusion Policy for adoption next month.
Dear HUUSD Community - I am pleased to announce that the school district has offered the position of Crossett Brook Middle School co-principal, pending school board approval, to Jennifer Durren.
Harwood Unified Union School District Superintendent Mike Leichliter shared the following letter from Vermont Secretary of Education Dan French today.
Editor’s Note: Harwood Superintendent Mike Leichliter sent this communication out on Monday as a refresher on the process used for handling winter weather changes to school schedules.
In a letter to the Harwood community, the superintendent and school board leaders address the need to reduce the use of restraint and seclusion in the school district and the steps they will take to begin that process with the 2022-23 school year.
The first of several public sessions to discuss public school funding for next year drew about two dozen people last week and more online as Harwood school officials answered questions and shared details of the draft proposal that will eventually appear on the Town Meeting Day ballot in March. Officials say more job cuts will be needed.