The powers and duties of the Board include making regulations governing: attendance and records of attendance of all pupils, standards for student performance, adult basic education programs, approval of independent schools, disbursement of funds, and equal access for all Vermont students to a quality education.
State Board Rules
State Board Rules and Practices
Below are State Board Rules as downloaded from the official versions posted by the Secretary of State on Lexis-Nexis. These documents were reformatted in a standard PDF format.
- Series 1100 - State Department of Education
- Series 1200 - State Board of Education
- Series 1300 - Special Education Finance and Census-Based Funding
(These rules were adopted by the State Board May 13, 2021 effective as of July 1, 2022) - Series 2000 - Education Quality Standards (These amendments shall take effect on July 1, 2025)
- Series 2200 - Independent School Program Approval (Amendments to all Sections became effective July 1, 2024, except that Subsections 2223.3.3(b) (Instructional Strategies) and 2223.3.3(c)(1)(Curriculum Content) will take effect on July 1, 2025)
- Series 2300 - Length of School Day and Year; Vermont GED; Driver Education
- Series 2360- Special Education Rules (effective as of July 1, 2022)
- Series 2370 - Career and Technical Education
- Series 2400 - Vermont Adult Education Rules
- Series 2500 - School Accountability System Based on Student Achievement
- Series 2600 - Prekindergarten Education
- Series 3000 - School District Organization
- Series 3400 - Proposals for Alternative Structures Under Act 46 (2015)
- Series 4000 - Pupils
- Series 4500 - Use of Restraint and Seclusion in Schools
- Series 5000 - Licensing of Educators and the Preparation of Educational Professionals
- Series 6000 - School Buildings and Sites
- Series 6001 - 6005 - School Bus Idling
- Series 6300 - General Rules for Prequalification of Bidders on Contracts over $ 500,000
- Series 6400 - Construction Management
- Series 7000 - Relationship with Public, Other Agencies, and Institutions
- Series 8100 - School Lunch Programs
- Series 8200 - Child and Adult Care Food Program
- Series 9000 - Public Bids
- Series 9100 - Net Cost Per Pupil
- Series 9200 - Full-time Equivalent Enrollment of Pupils
- Series 9300 - Allowable and Extraordinary Transportation Expenditures
- Series 9400 - Sliding Scales Calculation
- Series 9500 - Reporting Students for Whom English Is Not the Primary Language Under the Equal Education Opportunity Act
- Series 10000 - Coordination of Services to Children and Adolescents with a Severe Emotional Disturbance
- Uniform School Calendar
- Unsafe School Choice Option Policy