Ripton Elementary News Today

After nearly two years spent in a “weird statutory hellscape,” Ripton Elementary School is back where it started. Has anything changed?

Ripton residents voted resoundingly on Thursday to return to the Addison Central School District, nearly two years after residents voted to leave the district in...

Sarah Paquette, a mother of three, loves everything about Ripton Elementary School. She's grateful for the individual attention her two sons have gotten from teachers...

RIPTON — Ripton’s bid to withdraw from the Addison Central School District will again take center stage before the Vermont State Board of Education (SBE) next Wednesday, May 19.

Thu, 02/25/2021 - 3:20pm meganj By:  John Flowers This idea that (Ripton Elementary School) is worth ‘saving’ at any cost is elitist. When our taxes go up, how will our low-income neighbors afford to live here? — Ripton residents Heather and Joe Durante RIPTON — You’ll forgive Ripton residents this year for being more preoccupied by their neighbors’ town meeting results than their own. That’s because residents in Bridport, Cornwall, Middlebury, Salisbury...

Newbury, Tunbridge among Vermont towns considering leaving school districts Students at the Ripton Elementary School head to the bus at the end of the day on Tuesday, December 1, 2020. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger Modified: 12/28/2020 8:45:38 PM MONTPELIER — At least five towns across Vermont will vote in the coming weeks on whether to secede from their unified school districts, a first wave of district breakups that could herald more. For David Major, the former Westminster School Board ...

Thu, 12/17/2020 - 12:31pm meganj By:  John Flowers RIPTON RESIDENT ERIN Robinson stands with her sons and a sign urging her fellow residents to vote in favor of a Jan. 12 referendum that could see her community begin the process of withdrawing from the Addison Central School District. Weybridge residents will field the same question on Jan. 12. PROPONENTS OF A Jan. 12 vote on whether Ripton should leave the Addison Central School District in order to keep their elem...