(Edited to correct list of participating school districts)
Meeting Date: October 8, 2026
Location: Montpelier High School
Time: 5:00pm-7:00pm
Initial school districts involved:
- Barre Unified Union School District (BUUSD) (City of Barre, Town of Barre)
- Paine Mountain School District (PMSD) (Northfield, Williamstown)
- Montpelier-Roxbury Public Schools (MRPS) (Montpelier, Roxbury)
- Twinfield Union School District (TUSD) (Marshfield, Plainfield)
- Washington Central Unified Union School District (WCUUSD) (Berlin, Calais, East Montpelier, Middlesex, Worcester)
Phil Scott and his VTGOP are fine with this. As a matter of fact they actively support this approach. How you cast your vote matters (and maybe for the last time if Scott and his Republican Party get their way).
The other day I was talking with a thirty something Vermont - a working adult who is in a financially comfortable position. This young Vermonter is one of those who chose to complete their Vermont based university and college experiences and then stay here - including purchasing a home site and home!
In short this is a Vermonter everyone, including Vermont's Governor Scott, keeps telling us are the most important for our state's future.
This young Vermonter told me how they have lost faith in the future. They don't really believe they have one and are basically living day to day in the hopes they'll survive economically, politically and PHYSICALLY. Literally no hope that their life will improve in the coming years and decades.
I wanted to cry as I listened to this. And I was mad at the same time. This individual's future is being ripped straight away, and it is being done by a vile, violent, racist, bigoted, anti-environment, pro-billionaire, authoritarian Republican Party agenda aided and abetted by comfortable white liberals who are more interested in not rocking the boat then accomplishing anything of value.
Yes, this made me extremely sad and mad .... a total lack of faith in the future.
What's THE BIG IDEA? Why it's the single greatest mission that has ever been asked of any community, nation or alliance, and that mission is to provide our grandkids and their grandkids a realistic and reasonable opportunity for a free, healthy, and sustainable future.
Job #1: Maintain our humanity!
Job #2: Rebuild and strengthen our democratic institutions, processes and values.
Job #3: Schools for learning, money to pay for what needs to be done, and physical surroundings that are conducive to good health for the grandchildren.
Are YOU still voting Republican for anything?
I wonder if anybody in "What would you suppose I should do?" Scott's administration has worked out how many tax cuts for the rich or down voted school budgets are needed to implement this plan?
Anybody?
>Vermont’s Agency of Education is rolling out new steps to combat chronic absenteeism that has plagued the state since the COVID-19 pandemic.
"Vermont rolls out new plan to battle chronic school absenteeism", WCAX, 09/28/26
