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The Department of
Education reviews online newspapers each week day and compiles clips relevant to
education in Vermont. A Web page is created for each day's clips with article titles
and descriptions as well as information about the article's source.
Click on an article's
title to link to the full text on its newspaper's Web site. Click on a newspaper's
name to link to the publication's home page.
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Milton
voters reject school budget
Milton residents defeated a revised budget for the Milton Town
School District on Tuesday, 676-634. (Burlington
Free Press, Local News section, 4/30/08)
Editorial:
NCLB not last word on our public schools
Being proficient in the basics is only a beginning that few
people would confuse with a sound education. (Burlington
Free Press, Editorial section, 4/30/08)
Audit
shows $1.6M snafu at WNESU
ROCKINGHAM
- The Windham Northeast Supervisory Union may have misspent
more than $1 million in federal special education funds, according
to a draft report of the 2004-05 school year put together by
the Vermont Department of Education. (Brattleboro
Reformer, Local News section, 4/30/08)
Greenhouse
teaches students about farms
DUMMERSTON - This is one project where the faculty at Dummerston
Middle School actually want the students to get their hands
dirty. (Brattleboro
Reformer, City & Town News section, 4/30/08)
East
Haven Voters Dump School Budget Again
East Haven residents Tuesday said no again to the school budget
in a 57-52 vote, meaning the budget will have to go back to
voters a fourth time.
(Caledonian-Record,
Local News section, 4/30/08)
Legislators fail in efforts to repeal Act 82
MONTPELIER - A last-gasp effort to repeal a controversial school-spending
law suffered a quick demise in the Vermont Senate on Tuesday,
likely ending any opportunity this session to undo legislation
that critics say will have severe consequences on public education
in the state. (Rutland
Herald,
State section, 4/30/08)
City
School principal leaving
ST.
ALBANS CITY – With a search for one administrator freshly
behind it, the St. Albans City School Board must now embark
on another hunt for someone to take the school’s top job.
(St.
Albans Messenger,
4/30/08)
Finances
allow Barre schools to rescind cuts
BARRE – Spaulding school directors are now revisiting some
of the staffing cuts that were made during a marathon meeting
that yielded the $12.1 million budget voters approved nearly
two months ago. (Times
Argus,
Top Stories section, 4/30/08)
School
traffic plan getting good reviews
MONTPELIER – Beth Keck, the mother of three Union Elementary
School students, told the police officer stationed at the Park
Avenue and Hubbard Street intersection Monday that she was happy
about new one-way traffic around the school. (Times
Argus,
Central Vermont section, 4/30/08)
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