The Harwood School Board made three appointments last Wednesday filling vacancies left by the March election, but it followed just two of three recommendations from select boards in Waterbury and Duxbury.
The Harwood School Board has put the brakes on its consolidation exercise, shifting focus to invest over $110,000 in an architectural review of each school facility's condition before any specific changes are recommended.
Joint fundraising by Brookside Primary and Crossett Brook Middle schools’ PTOs has rallied community support for collecting prizes and in ticket sales. A similar effort launches in Fayston in May.
The Alchemist Foundation will host a free community conversation on Monday evening in Stowe to share information on gap years.
Harwood Union High School’s theater program presented four performances of its spring musical “Anything Goes” on the high school stage this weekend, which also served as the backdrop to announce a $1.3 million fundraising campaign to fund upgrades to the school’s auditorium infrastructure.
BARRE — The runway is incredibly short, the landing strip could be gone before it’s time to touch down, but plans to relocate the Central Vermont Career Center are preparing for takeoff.
Teams of sixth- and eighth-grade students from Crossett Brook Middle School are headed to this weekend’s Jr. Iron Chef Vt. competition at the Champlain Valley Exposition in Essex Junction.
A Harwood Union High School junior is among the students recognized by Sen. Bernie Sanders for having a top entry in the senator’s 15th annual State of the Union Essay Contest.
State representatives from the communities of the Harwood Unified Union School District will convene a public forum to discuss public education reform from 6 to 8 p.m. tonight in the auditorium at Harwood Union High School.
Harwood Union High School presents a comedy for its spring musical this year with performances of the classic “Anything Goes” set for April 3-5.
The Town Meeting Day election failed to fill an at-large position on the Central Vermont Career Center School Board to be held by someone from the Harwood Unified Union School District.
MARCH 19: The Harwood Unified Union School District has announced revised Mud Season bus routes in effect until further notice
At its post-election organizational meeting last week, the Harwood Unified Union School District School Board re-elected its leaders, appointed members to officer roles for the coming year and looked ahead to multiple long-term projects that could spell significant changes for the future.
Crossett Brook Middle School will reopen for classes on Tuesday amidst ongoing cleanup from a significant flooding event that occurred last Thursday.
BARRE — Ballots cast on Town Meeting Day in the 18-town school district that operates the Central Vermont Career Center were finally tabulated Thursday, and its regional board now has a budget and three vacant seats to fill, even as it weighs when to ask voters to approve a bond for a new, state-of-the-art facility.
Crossett Brook Middle School in Duxbury was closed on Thursday and remains closed today as cleanup crews work and school officials assess damage from the second major flooding event in less than eight months.
Voters across the Harwood Unified Union School District overwhelmingly approved the $49.2 million proposed school budget for the coming year and adding $500k to the Maintenance Reserve fund. News of staffing cuts required by the new budget is expected later this month.
Tonight is the Harwood Unified Union School District's annual meeting and final informational session pertaining to the proposed 2025-26 budget that is on the ballot in all six district communities tomorrow.
Several local speakers were featured at a State House rally to “Keep the Public in Public Education” this week. Students, parents, educators and community members delivered messages to lawmakers and Gov. Phil Scott that “Vermonters want good public schools and fair taxes.”
PUBLIC NOTICES
Harwood Unified Union School District is accepting bids for Propane, Heating Fuel, Woodchip and TAN. If you are interested in submitting a bid for any of these, email Meg Libby at mlibby@huusd.org
Here are upcoming April meetings from the Central Vermont Career Center School District with agendas and Zoom links included.
Let this serve as notice that regular education school records of students who graduated from Harwood Union High School in June 2023 or June 2024, or who were part of the Class of 2023 and Class of 2024, will be destroyed on July 1, 2025.
From the HUUSD
The Harwood Unified Union School Board is seeking to fill two vacant seats from Waterbury and one vacant seat from Duxbury.
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 this report from UVM’s Community News Service, meet Moretown resident and Vermont’s Teacher of the Year Caitlin McLeod-Bluver, who teaches history, English and social studies at Winooski High School.