Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. BENNINGTON â Plans are ongoing to eventually move students in the Southwest Vermont Supervisory Union to Phase III of the schoolâs reopening as soon as they get an approval from Governor Phil Scott and the Agency of Education. At the Southwest Vermont Union Elementary School District meeting this week, SVSU superintendent James Culkeen said that originally, the plan to move to Phase III was to start on Jan. 19, but that timeline has been moved back into March at the earliest. âEducators like things to be lined up,â said assistant superintendent Laura Boudreau. âWeâve been working on the plans to go from Phase II to Phase III since the fall, but thereâs so many moving parts.â