Hundreds of students gathered in the Vergennes Union Elementary School gym on Thursday afternoon for their first big assembly since before the pandemic. They had.
The former teacher gets high marks for building bridges to disenchanted educators and shepherding billions of dollars in federal relief funds to schools. But critics say his department has been slow to meet a fast-changing pandemic and reluctant to embrace a newly visible constituency: parents. When Education Secretary Miguel Cardona toured South Bend, Indiana’s Madison […]
Aria Leff of the Malikians with a note from a care package she sent Seventy teams from across the state participated, including a group of 60 St. Albans teens and a pair of Springfield siblings. As the Challenge Master, I got an email every time one of them submitted an entry. After a snowstorm, I d get a blizzard of submissions from kids who d shoveled snow for their neighbors. On Tuesdays and Fridays, I d hear from teams that listened to Gov. Phil Scott s COVID-19 press conferences. As Town Meeting Day approached, debate watching spiked in popularity.
Kids VT, inserted in this week’s paper. It includes a write-up about the team that completed the most activities 586 of them, to be exact. That team, the Malikians, is a fourth-grade class from Champlain Elementary School in Burlington; teacher Aziza Malik inspired the name.