By Katy Savage Parents and community members sounded off at an Otter Valley Unified Union School Board meeting April 11 over safety concerns in the wake of a series of unrelated violent threats made from two students and a teacher […]
Tag: school safety
Letter, Opinion
School workers: We need action to ensure everyone’s safe at school
Dear Editor, Last month, 21 schools across Vermont were targeted by a vicious hoax that terrorized countless students and staff members as they were sent into lockdown and SWAT teams carrying AR-15s burst into the lobby. We are thankful nobody was physically […]
Letter, Opinion
Students not safe in school
Dear Editor, I’m terrified to go to school. That’s really nothing new — I’m from a generation raised on school shooter drills, told that a strap on a door would protect us and that if all else failed, our books […]
Op - Ed, Opinion
With children in school, one issue dominates
By Angelo Lynn As Congress grills the Biden administration on its troubled withdrawal from Afghanistan, as small businesses throughout Vermont and many parts of the nation struggle to hire enough employees to keep their businesses open, as housing prices rise […]
State News
239 Vermont schools to receive $4 million in grants for safety
Governor Phil Scott recently announced 239 Vermont schools have been awarded school safety grants totaling $4 million, which will fund infrastructure upgrades designed to improve school safety. This funding is possible through a $5 million funding package proposed by Scott […]
State News
Ed funding, school safety and coyotes
By Rep. Jim Harrison, R-Bridgewater, Chittenden, Killington & Mendon Education funding Leadership in the Vermont House made it a priority earlier this session to address the way we fund K-12 education. The current system, which was born out of Act […]
State News
State board issues statement on school safety to protect students of color
By Tiffany Danitz Pache, VTDigger Fears and concerns after the national presidential election prompted the state Board of Education this week to a issue a statement about the need to ensure the safety of all students regardless of race, class […]