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The big picture on Vermont public schoolsOnce again Vermonters exhibit the wool over their eyes such as in Steve Nelson’s April 2 column, “Let independent schools demonstrate their value.”The big picture remains that Vermonters in the past have not...

Thirty-eight Vermont school districts and supervisory unions are under “targeted monitoring” from the state. Superintendents are pointing fingers at the state Agency of Education.

Vermont lawmakers have put forth a proposal to restrict public dollars going to private schools, a plan that could dramatically transform the state’s educational landscape if enacted.A bill introduced in the Vermont Senate on Tuesday would prohibit...

A bill in the Vermont Senate would cut off public tuition dollars to most independent schools, except for a handful of historic institutions and therapeutic schools.

In a letter Dec. 22, Mill Moore of the Vermont Independent Schools Association continued to argue that independent schools should be exempt from Act 1 working group curriculum standards developed for Vermonts public schools. If independent schools don’t want to follow said curriculum, they can simply choose not to accept public money. If my taxes go to private schools that are approved to receive public tuition dollars, I want to get what I paid for.Adam JacobsWinooski

The Ethnic and Social Equity Standards Advisory Working Group spent three years drafting updates to make Vermont’s education rules more inclusive and equitable. An attorney will weigh in on whether they can apply to independent schools.

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...

After more than a year of painstaking deliberations, last week the State Board of Education adopted rules it says will prevent Vermont private schools that...