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Bills filed in both the state House and Senate this month would require Vermont towns that pay tuition for some or all grades to designate up to three public schools for their students to attend.

At The Sharon Academy, an independent school in Windsor County, most students’ tuition is subsidized by a generous backer: the state of Vermont.Like many of Vermont’s independent schools — elsewhere called private schools — The Sharon Academy receives...

CHELSEA — Almost since its creation four years ago, the First Branch Unified District has been under tension, with some residents trying to pull it together and others trying to pull it apart.Even as the district’s board is budgeting for a plan to...

Town Meeting: Tunbridge, Chelsea voters narrowly approve First Branch school budget Modified: 5/26/2021 9:56:59 PM CHELSEA — Voters in the First Branch Unified School District narrowly approved the annual budget by Australian ballot on Tuesday. The vote tally was 117-111. Last year, the district’s two towns, Chelsea and Tunbridge, struggled to come up with an acceptable budget, finally approving spending for the merged school district last October, well into the school year, after defeating...

Town Meeting preview: First Branch Unified District’s budget plan dips as cost per pupil grows Published: 5/19/2021 11:26:51 PM Modified: 5/19/2021 11:29:02 PM Related stories Hot topic: The warning for the First Branch Unified District’s annual meeting contains only seven articles, all of them straightforward. The budget will draw the most attention, as residents of Chelsea and Tunbridge, the district’s two towns, twice voted down budgets last year before finally approving a spending pla...

Tunbridge prepares to vote on dissolving school district, splitting from Chelsea Modified: 1/5/2021 10:00:41 PM TUNBRIDGE — Dissolving the First Branch Unified School District could be a costly endeavor for taxpayers in Tunbridge and Chelsea if voters in the district’s two towns decide to do so. An analysis presented by the White River Valley Supervisory Union at a meeting Monday night showed that the tax rate in Tunbridge would have been 18 cents higher per $100 of valuation this year if T...