By Lola Duffort/VTDigger People are declining job offers in the state because they can’t find housing. Homelessness is rising. Vermont has the lowest rental vacancy rate in the nation. Lawmakers who pounded the pavement throughout the summer and fall ahead of […]
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Health department employees urge leaders to issue stronger Covid-19 guidance
By Lola Duffort/VTDigger A group of 91 rank-and-file Vermont health department employees have penned a letter to the department’s leaders, begging them to take a firmer stand as the state sees a surge of Covid-19 cases. The letter, delivered to […]
State Board of Education orders three districts to pay tuition at religious schools
Ludlow-Mt. Holly, Rutland Town, Hartland, and Mt. Ascutney school districts named in appeal By Lola Duffort/VTDigger The state board of education on Wednesday, April 21, ordered three Vermont school districts to reimburse families who live in “school choice” towns for the tuition they […]
Report: Domestic and sexual violence costs Vermont $111 million a year
By Lola Duffort/VTDigger The public costs of domestic and sexual violence total an estimated $111 million a year in Vermont, with more than half that money spent not on direct services to survivors, but on incarceration and law enforcement. That’s according […]
‘Once-in-a-generation opportunity’: Covid relief brings half-billion to Vermont schools
By Lola Duffort/VTDigger At the start of the pandemic, state and education officials worried that Covid-19 would be a financial catastrophe for the pre-K-12 system. Instead, the opposite happened. With three major federal relief packages approved by Congress since the start of the […]
Delay of proficiency-based learning mandate sought
By Lola Duffort/VTDigger The president of the Vermont-NEA asked lawmakers to consider pushing back the deadline for implementing proficiency-based graduation requirements in the state’s high schools to 2022. Proficiency-based learning asks that student progress be assessed on the skills they can show they […]