Harwood district radon testing is underway
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.
School officials: Job cuts key to containing Harwood’s FY26 budget
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.
School budget public info meeting set for Thursday
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.
Reading mentors needed for Brookside 2nd graders
Second graders at Brookside Primary School in Waterbury are looking for Everybody Wins! reading mentors.
Brookside co-principal completes school leadership program
The Snelling Center for Government announced that Brookside Primary School Co-Principal Sarah Schoolcraft of Duxbury has graduated from its Vermont School Leadership Project.
Survey: Mental health challenges persist for Vt. students
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.
Sen. Sanders seeks student essays for annual contest
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.
Brookside Primary School community mourns the loss of ‘Mr. Mark’
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 salutes students for being caring, curious, connected
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.
Community raises questions, concerns at education funding panel
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.
Harwood Union Theatre presents ‘Treasure Island’ Nov. 7-9
They promise “this isn’t your grandparents’ ‘Treasure Island’” in announcing the fall production by Harwood Union Theatre.
Harwood names its top teacher nominees for 2024
Ahead of the annual ceremony to recognize top educators across Vermont, Harwood Unified Union School District has shared its two nominees.
Learn about, weigh in on public education in multiple upcoming forums
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.
Harwood gets a new assistant principal
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.
Marburg virus outbreak nixes Harwood’s 2025 Rwanda trip
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 teaches in Winooski, lives in Moretown
Vermont’s 2025 Teacher of the Year is Caitlin MacLeod-Bluver who teaches at Winooski High School and lives in Moretown.
All is well after hoax threat to Waitsfield Elementary School
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.
New Harwood cellphone routine takes hold; school board eyes a formal policy
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.
Concert fundraiser aims to fund student travel scholarships
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.
CVCC site search narrowed to two including U-32
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.