There were several community comments to start off the school board meeting on Thursday. Laura, a teacher, spoke in favor of the BLM flag staying up at the High School. Ember, a community member, spoke in favor of the BLM Read more…
The leadership of Vermont Parents Against Critical Theory (VPACT) recently learned of the repainting of the electrical box outside of the Milton High School. VPACT does not condone vandalism or violence of any kind including what happened at this installation. Read more…
The student reps to the school board were not in attendance and board member Jenn Wilsoncame in to the meeting about half way through. Before community comments at the meeting Thursday night board chair Kumulia Long wantedto address some comments Read more…
The Equity Policy (EP) for the MTSD was in the works for several years. As soon as the five-year Strategic Plan was adopted, the EP was one of the first things to be created. An original committee was put together Read more…
The meeting started with a couple community comments. Ember Quinn spoke about it being trans awareness week and offered to talk to anyone genuinely interested about trans issues. A student commented on the flagpole policy and urged the board to Read more…
There were no community comments to start the meeting last night. Amy Rex gave her superintendent’s report. For the last two years they have been conducting research on new math curriculums and this year new curriculums have been implemented. Open Read more…
There were no community comments to start last night’s meeting. One middle school teacher is leaving before the end of October. Approval of warrants was followed by the superintendent’s report. Amy started by talking about the Continuous Improvement Plan Read more…
There were no community comments to begin last night’s meeting. One teacher has resigned since the beginning of the year. The superintendent’s report given by Amy Rex focused on the beginning of the school year. The theme for the Read more…
By Allison Duquette I recently helped out with a booth at the Champlain Valley Fair. VPACT and the parent group in Essex, SPEAK, collaborated on the booth. Our intention was to educate people on what is being taught in the Read more…
There was a joint meeting of the school board and selectboard on September 18th. The purpose of the meeting was for the school board to present the Herrick Avenue project progression to the selectboard. Board Chair, Kumulia Long, gave a Read more…