The program, funded by a grant secured by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., helped spark discussions about community building and social activism.
Harwood school district officials have begun community meetings to share details of the proposed $49.2 million 2025-26 school budget that voters will be asked to approve on Town Meeting Day.
In an effort to promote upcoming free school vaccine clinics, the Harwood Unified Union School District is participating in a local researcher’s project to involve community members who would share their personal stories about vaccinations.
Multiple fundraising efforts are underway to support Harwood Union High School’s theater programming, with ways for the community to support both the spring musical – “Anything Goes,” set for April 3-5 – and performances on the Harwood stage for years to come.
Waterbury’s Harry N. Cutting American Legion Post #59 recently presented academic achievement awards to two local college freshmen who graduated from Harwood Union High School in 2024.
Harwood’s school board has decided to put a 2025-26 school budget to the voters in March that increases spending slightly, is likely to lower school taxes for many, but relies on cutting some 15-20 full-time jobs across the district.
MONTPELIER— State officials unveiled the broad strokes of Gov. Phil Scott’s education proposal Wednesday, a plan that includes sweeping changes like consolidating Vermont’s dozens of school districts to just five and adopting a foundation formula.
The upcoming Town Meeting Day election will be important for the Harwood Unified Union School District School Board this year as eight of the board’s 14 seats will be on ballots across five of the district’s six communities.
The personal data of students and staff at several dozen Vermont school districts may have been compromised in a nationwide data breach of a student information system, according to state education officials.
Crossett Brook and Harwood Union middle schools are two of five Vermont schools named as state finalists in the 15th annual Samsung Solve for Tomorrow STEM competition.
An educational tradition continues at Harwood Union High School on Jan. 9 with the latest gathering of a Socrates Café for community members to join students to ponder a question, share, and learn.
Two Waterbury high school students are among a group of applicants to the U.S. service academies that will meet with Vermont’s Congressional delegation members on Saturday at the Vermont State House.
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.
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.
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.
PUBLIC NOTICES
Here is an upcoming board meeting from the Central Vermont Career Center School District with agenda and Zoom link included.
HUUSD’s annual meeting will be held March 3-4 2025.
Through universal preschool, all children who will be 3 years old on or before September 1, 2025, are eligible to attend our highly regarded school-based programs or receive funding to attend any program pre-approved by the state.
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 Vermont State School Nurses’ Association has announced that Brookside Primary School Nurse Allison Conyers of Waterbury will be honored this summer with a national award at a conference in Texas.