School board: Leaders bid farewell, 2024-25 calendar set, and more
Harwood’s calendar for the 2024-25 school year has just been set and it includes a schedule juggle in November that gives students Election Day off.
One school budget – three weeks – three price tags
Harwood’s proposed $50.8 million budget for the 2024-25 school year in the past three weeks has had three different estimated price tags for taxpayers – without the budget changing a penny.
School district, support staff union reach tentative contract agreement
The Harwood Unified Union School District administration and representatives of the school district’s support staff association have reached a tentative agreement in their labor negotiations for a new contract replacing the one that ended last June.
School board on budget: ‘Let the voters decide’
Taxpayers in the Harwood Unified Union School District could expect to see the school portion of their property tax bills go up by 30% to 40% later this year if they approve the $50.8 million school budget on the Town Meeting Day ballot.
School board leaders: We need your input in the form of your vote
Dear Harwood community, we write to ask you to support the school district budget during Town Meeting Day on Tuesday, March 5.
Memorial scholarship fund supports travel for seven Harwood students
The local nonprofit Launch Into Foreign Travel program has announced that it has awarded $6,575 in scholarships to seven Harwood Union High School students traveling to Rwanda, Denmark and India this year.
TONIGHT: School board to review budget scenarios ahead of March 5 vote
The Harwood Unified Union School District School Board meets tonight to review fresh calculations from the administration to inform their discussion of how to present a proposed budget for the 2024-25 school year to the voters.
School budget fate may eclipse renovation bond progress
As they follow the shifting landscape of public school funding guidelines coming from Montpelier, Harwood school leaders say the financial turbulence involved in settling next school year’s budget could derail hopes for putting a construction bond to voters in November.
Harwood students are VT winners in Samsung STEM contest
The Harwood Middle School team participating in the 14th annual Samsung Solve for Tomorrow STEM competition has been named the Vermont state winner in the national innovation contest.
Vermont gets a ‘road map’ for confronting its school construction needs
A long-awaited report on how Vermont should address its billions of dollars in school construction needs arrived in the Legislature on Thursday.
School district announces Duxbury & Rt. 2 bus changes effective immediately
On Wednesday morning, Harwood school district officials announced imminent changes to several bus routes mainly in Duxbury that go into effect tomorrow, Thursday, Feb. 1.
School leaders appeal to lawmakers to change Act 127
Representatives from 14 Vermont school districts and supervisory unions presented statements on the unintended consequences of Act 127 to legislators on Tuesday, highlighting the catastrophic financial scenarios towns are expecting across the state.
Bond, budget meetings on school district calendar Jan. 30-Feb. 1
It’s a busy week on the Harwood Unified Union School District calendar next week.
Likely school budget comes with substantial property tax impacts
With a late January deadline to finalize budgets for Town Meeting Day, the Harwood Unified Union School Board has selected the budget draft it would like to put to voters and the bottom-line tax impacts are substantial.
Superintendent 360: Survey seeks feedback on district’s leader
I am kindly requesting your participation in the online survey for the superintendent that the school board and I developed earlier this fall.
Harwood Rwanda program hosts benefit concert at Zenbarn
The Harwood Union High School Rwanda Travel Study program will host a benefit concert this Sunday, Jan. 14, at Zenbarn in Waterbury Center.
Four meetings left to learn about Harwood renovation needs
Four more community meetings are scheduled this month for local residents to learn about proposed renovations for Harwood Union Middle/High School.
Moretown Elementary School will reopen Jan. 2
Families with students at Moretown Elementary School were notified on Wednesday that their school will be ready to reopen on Tuesday, Jan. 2, following the holiday break.
School budget work on hold until January
Harwood Unified Union School District leaders have put discussions around the budget for the 2024-25 school year on hold until after the holidays due to incomplete information needed from the state Agency of Education to proceed. The board also heard about an overdue labor contract and a new program at Brookside.
Community meetings on Harwood renovations continue tonight at Crossett Brook
The discussion around planning for major renovations to Harwood Union Middle/High School continues tonight with the fourth in a series of community meetings. Tonight’s gathering will be in the library at Crossett Brook Middle School, 6-8 p.m.