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Parts of Vermont tallied 16 inches of snow Thursday night into Friday, with the worst of the snow for the Burlington area wrapping up in the afternoon

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 […]

Roughly 81% of people admitted into critical care with COVID-19 during the past week were not fully vaccinated, according to state health officials.

Updated at 3:31 p.m. U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona settled into a chair sized for a second-grader and told a group of Champlain Elementary School...

Burlington has released a schedule for its inaugural celebration of Juneteenth, also known as Emancipation Day and Freedom Day, this summer.

Tyeastia Green Shortly after moving to Burlington last year for a job in city government, Tyeastia Green pitched her new colleagues on celebrating Juneteenth. Green, the Queen Citys first director of racial equity, inclusion and belonging, had fond memories of the holiday from growing up in Minneapolis. Yet Green, who was then the citys only Black department head, says she was met with confused looks when she first mentioned the event. Its a...

Tue, 06/01/2021 - 1:34pm -- tim Vermont Business Magazine State Treasurer Beth Pearce today announced the names of twenty Vermont students who won this year’s prize drawing for the Treasurer’s Office’s Reading is an Investment financial education program. The winners were drawn from 2,419 K-6 students who completed all steps of the financial literacy curriculum, entitling them to the drawing for one of twenty $250 college savings accounts. “We’re incredibly proud of all our Vermont s...

The worst of the pandemic might be behind us, but the need for fresh vegetables and fresh air has never been higher, Vermont garden advocates say.

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, Id get a blizzard of submissions from kids whod shoveled snow for their neighbors. On Tuesdays and Fridays, Id hear from teams that listened to Gov. Phil Sco...