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By ALEX HANSON

Two Upper Valley educators with experience in reorganizing school districts are members of the task force charged with drawing a new school district map for Vermont.

By ALEX HANSON

Growing up in Springfield, Vt., in a family in which nearly all the men were machinists, Jeff Thomas had no plans to go into education. He was more attuned to the hardwood of the basketball court than to the classroom blackboard, and graduated 170th in his class of 210 students.

By PATRICK O’GRADY

LEBANON — For nearly 30 years, Carl Hussey — “Mr. Wonderful” to his students — taught social studies at Lebanon Junior High School.

What began as a taxpayer revolt against education spending is well on its way to becoming a full-scale revolution in the way that Vermont governs, funds and provides public education. Only time will tell whether that transformation is for good or ill, but it is clear that the state has entered largely uncharted territory.

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

HANOVER — Dartmouth College is among two dozen U.S. research institutions supporting Harvard in its legal fight against the Trump administration, arguing that the federal government’s freeze of $2.2 billion in research grants to Harvard “would negatively impact the entire research ecosystem.”

By ALEX HANSON

Even before Monday’s votes on legislation that is expected to radically reshape Vermont’s education landscape, Upper Valley school officials, and a few local lawmakers, were calling for its defeat.

By PATRICK ADRIAN

SOUTH ROYALTON — Speakers talked about dancing, Vermont’s resilience and weather patterns to usher graduates of White River Valley High School into the next stage of their lives in a Saturday morning ceremony.

By PATRICK O’GRADY

NEWPORT — Class speakers at the 2025 Newport High School graduation touched on familiar themes of friendships formed, gratitude given and the inevitability of change that lies ahead, waiting to be embraced, not feared.

By PATRICK O’GRADY

WINDSOR — The keynote speaker offered the 157th graduating class of Windsor High School one final lesson during Friday’s commencement inside the Harry Ladue Gymnasium.

By ALEX HANSON

In a sign of how heated Vermont’s education reform debate has become, the board of the White River Valley Supervisory Union has cut ties with the organization that advocates for the state’s public school boards.

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

ENFIELD — The Mascoma Valley Regional School District is fighting for reimbursement of half-a-million dollars it has already spent on ventilation improvements and professional development programs after the U.S. Department of Education declined to provide the district with the previously approved funds.

By PATRICK O’GRADY

CLAREMONT — Find a balance in your life; don’t be afraid to step out of your comfort zone; do the things you love; celebrate your accomplishments and remember to smile.

By PATRICK O’GRADY

NEWPORT — The School Board announced this week that Forrest Ransdell will be the next superintendent of Newport.

By MARION UMPLEBY

SOUTH ROYALTON — Vermont Law and Graduate School is the recipient of a $10 million gift from an anonymous international organization to advance the school’s environmental advocacy work.

By PATRICK O’GRADY

CLAREMONT — The Claremont School District is dealing with a “structural deficit that impacts cash flow” as the result of too much money being returned to taxpayers in the 2020 and 2021 fiscal years, the district’s attorney told the School Board last week.

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

HANOVER — After eight years at the helm, the superintendent of the Hanover and Norwich school districts is retiring in the fall.

By SHAUN ROBINSON

MONTPELIER — The Vermont Senate voted on Friday evening to approve its version of this year’s landmark education reform bill, H.454. The decision came just before 6:30 p.m., after hours of discussion on the floor and days of debate in committee hearings and a number of other meetings behind the scenes this week in the Statehouse.

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Planning to demolish up to 60% of Hartford High School and Hartford Area Career and Technical Center is on hold while the school district further investigates the presence of toxic building materials and develops a strategy for how the contamination might be removed.

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

HAVERHILL — Amid fears of losing federal funding, a few school boards in northern Grafton County axed their anti-discrimination policies pertaining to transgender and gender-nonconforming students.

By LOLA DUFFORT

The only thing that’s certain about education reform efforts at the Statehouse is what won’t happen.

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

SOUTH ROYALTON — For the third time in seven months, Bethel and Royalton voters rejected a $3.8 million bond to renovate the White River Unified School District’s middle and high schools .