School board asks voters to approve $42.6 million budget, using surplus for maintenance
The Harwood Unified Union School District School Board this week finalized the budget to put on the Town Meeting Day ballot and other election-related details.
Superintendent candidates in demand as search narrows
A veteran superintendent from Pennsylvania, a top administrator in one of Vermont’s largest school districts, and the 2021 Vermont Superintendent of the year.
Summer applications open for Governor’s Institutes of Vermont
The Governor’s Institutes of Vermont is taking applications for its nine in-person, residential summer programs this summer geared for students in grades 9-11.
Voters asked to create a career center school district
Voters in 18 communities across the region on Town Meeting Day will decide whether to create a new school district to run the Central Vermont Career Center.
Superintendent search plans video finalist interviews
The search for the next superintendent for the Harwood Unified Union School District continues this month with a goal of making a hiring choice by early February.
Harwood Middle School team aces STEM contest with creative trash-handling pitch
Seventh-grade students in Angela Selvaggio’s Harwood Union Middle School science class were among 100 state winners of a national STEM contest recently with an idea to address human impacts on nearby natural areas.
School board does double duty in January
The next three weeks on the calendar is full for the Harwood Unified Union School District board as it moves through the typical January budget exercise ahead of Town Meeting Day, this year on March 1.
Harwood schools adjust as COVID-19 impacts grow
Just back back in session this week after the holiday break as thousands of new COVID-19 cases have been reported in Vermont in recent days, local school officials have announced several changes to virus-related protocols effective immediately. For starters, as of today, spectators will not be allowed at sports events.
Testing, new rules as schools look to reopen in COVID-19 surge
Ahead of school returning to session after the holiday break, local school officials have alerted families to updated steps to take regarding COVID-19 testing, quarantine, etc. after state guidelines were revised this past week.
State to distribute home COVID-19 tests for K-12 students
Governor Phil Scott today announced that parents and caregivers of Vermont’s K-12 children will be able to pick up one free rapid antigen test kit per student Thursday or Friday this week at sites around Vermont. The state is encouraging parents to use these kits to test kids before they return to school next week, but a test is not a requirement for returning to school.
Brookside Primary closes early for holiday break after 6 COVID cases reported on Tuesday
Late Tuesday afternoon, families in the Harwood Unified Union School District got word that Brookside Primary School in Waterbury would close a day early for the holiday break due to not having enough staff to open on Wednesday after six new COVID-19 cases were identified.
Harwood Music presents first in-person concert in two years
After a two-year hiatus, Harwood Union High School’s Music program recently presented its first in-person concert since the COVID-19 pandemic began.
State, school officials call threats of violence on Dec. 17 ‘non-credible’
State and local Vermont school officials are alerting school communities and parents about concern over social media messages warning of threats of violence at schools around the nation on Friday, Dec. 17.
State, local data show discrepancies in COVID-19 cases in Vermont schools
Since the beginning of the school year, officials at Twinfield Union School have recorded 17 cases of COVID-19.
Harwood Union National Honor Society inducts 24 new students
Harwood Union High School’s National Honor Society chapter recently held a ceremony to induct new members.
School superintendent: ‘We need help’
In both written and in-person reports to the Harwood Unified Union School District School Board last week, Superintendent Brigid Nease made it clear that the ongoing pandemic is making it increasingly challenging to keep schools open without more people willing to be substitute teachers.
The show goes on: Harwood Theatre returns to the stage with ‘The Mousetrap’
Student actors took to the Harwood Union High School stage last weekend for their first live performance since before the COVID-19 pandemic began.
Schools feeling ripples of COVID-19 surge
As Vermont continues to see record-setting daily COVID-19 case counts, local schools have been dealing with their own surge in new infections. As of Tuesday, Nov. 9, the Harwood Unified Union School District had reported nine COVID-19 cases for November alone for a total of 20 since the school year began.
Superintendent search consultant asks questions, takes notes, in real time
Less than a week after the school district’s proposed $59.5 million construction bond suffered a resounding defeat at the ballot box, consultant John Gratto finds himself the central note-taker this week in an exercise designed to shape the search for the next superintendent to take the helm next summer.
Online survey, public meetings, kick off superintendent search
The search for a new superintendent for the Harwood Unified Union School District has begun with a community survey in progress and multiple meetings next week for various groups including community members to weigh in on the qualifications a successful candidate should have.