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…
“Hi, my name is Ember Nova Quinn and I’m a queer transgender nonbinary person. I would like the board to consider the drafting of this policy specifically recognizes and legitimizes LGBTQ people and prevents this legitimacy from being debated in Read more…
“Hi, thank you. Thank you, school board members, for doing everything that you can do to make Milton schools better for all children. I appreciate the Vermont school board association’s belief that public education is the foundation of and for Read more…
Thursday night’s board meeting was a short one. There were no community comments at the beginning of the meeting, but there was some discussion between board members and the superintendent about warrants and contracts to be approved. In the superintendent’s Read more…
There were no community comments at last night’s school board meeting. Warrants, contracts and minutes from previous meetings were all approved after a short discussion of each. Amy Rex started her superintendent’s report with acknowledgement of the devastating flooding that Read more…