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6 days ago | 
caledonianrecord.com | Andrew McGregor
The Caledonia Cooperative School District Board filled a couple of key vacancies in recent days by appointing a member to the board seat previously held by the late Caledonia County Sheriff James Hemond in Waterford and hiring Sam McLeod to be the full-time principal at Barnet School next year. Barnet’s gain is Peacham’s loss, however, as McLeod has been the principal at Peacham School since 2020 and had been splitting time between the Peacham and Barnet since January.
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1 week ago | 
caledonianrecord.com | Andrew McGregor
St. Johnsbury School students, staff, parents and community members held a Walk, Ride, or Roll To School event Tuesday to promote healthy living. Over 60 gathered at the Father Lively Center for the start of the event that saw kids on bikes, scooters, roller blades and more for the walk to school on Western Avenue. School staff handed out prizes for the participants, including sunglasses promoting being vape-free, bubbles and noise makers for the lively bunch on their way to school.
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1 week ago | 
caledonianrecord.com | Andrew McGregor
The Kingdom East School District Board and administrators learned something new in recent days following a community member’s questioning of their practice for handling write-in candidates. Since its inception, KESD has required write-in candidates to receive at least 60 votes to be elected to the board, the same number of signatures that are required to be on the ballot in the first place.
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1 week ago | 
caledonianrecord.com | Andrew McGregor
Facing the potential threat of state-mandated school district mergers, the Peacham School Board is considering selling their school building to the town to preserve local control of the facility. At their meeting last week, the board held a wide-ranging discussion with David Kelley, an attorney from Greensboro and former Hazen Union School Board Chair with relevant experience on the subject, about his advice for the possible sale.
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1 week ago | 
caledonianrecord.com | Andrew McGregor
The Kingdom East School District Board and administrators learned something new in recent days following a community member’s questioning of their practice for handling write-in candidates. Since its inception, KESD has required write-in candidates to receive at least 60 votes to be elected to the board, the same number of signatures that are required to be on the ballot in the first place.
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2 weeks ago | 
caledonianrecord.com | Andrew McGregor
At its meeting this week, the St. Johnsbury School Board approved hiring longtime Northeast Kingdom educator Theresa Pollner as the new assistant principal for lower grades. Pollner, who works at Kingdom East School District, will join St. J School’s new leadership structure following the departure of co-principal Lydia Cochrane this summer.
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2 weeks ago | 
caledonianrecord.com | Andrew McGregor
If all goes according to plan, Vermont Treasurer Mike Pieciak hopes to recruit a few hundred teenagers and young adults from the Northeast Kingdom later this year to receive upwards of $20,000 each as part of the state’s Baby Bonds pilot program. During the last legislative session, Pieciak proposed a Baby Bonds program, and the Legislature authorized him to establish some administrative frameworks and launch a pilot program to study the concept and outcomes.
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2 weeks ago | 
caledonianrecord.com | Andrew McGregor
A federal directive issued by the US Department of Education late last week is stirring concern that schools will be forced to comply with the current administration’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion policies or risk losing federal education funding. The directive, which called for state and local school officials to certify compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, was received by the Vermont Agency of Education.
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2 weeks ago | 
caledonianrecord.com | Andrew McGregor
School officials across the Northeast Kingdom and beyond are trying to assess the potential impacts of the US Department of Education’s sudden clawback of remaining pandemic-era grants. Vermont Agency of Education staff were notified of the change in federal policy late Friday and have been working with school districts to assess the fallout that could leave some with unreimbursed expenses for work already done and others with budget shortfalls for ongoing or intended projects and programs.
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3 weeks ago | 
caledonianrecord.com | Andrew McGregor
The Danville School Board, members of the school’s leadership, and the wider community expressed concerns about the potential impact of education transformation proposals under consideration at the Legislature. The underlying concern is that the funding formula and governance changes would likely eliminate the high school at Danville School and have difficult budgetary consequences. kAm(9:=6 ?@ 3:==D 92G6 J6E 366? A2DD65 2?5 2 =@E 42? DE:== 492?86 :? |@?EA6=:6C[ E96 3@2C5 4@?D:56C65 2 AC6D6?E2E:@?
