Middle school actors, singers, and crew are working hard in preparation to present “Mean Girls, Jr.” Friday and Sunday, Dec. 5 and 7, on the Harwood stage.
When the state panel charged with reconfiguring Vermont’s school districts met this week, Harwood’s school board chair was among the many people who offered public comments critical of the state’s plan.
The majority of Vermont school redistricting task force members endorsed a proposal on Monday that would incentivize voluntary mergers of the state’s 119 school districts. Most of the committee also opposed a new school district map based around centers for career and technical education.
BARRE — Hours after Thursday’s belated ballot count revealed voters in the 18-town district had rejected the $149 million bond proposal, members of the Central Vermont Career Center School District Board who serve on the facilities committee huddled with administrators to discuss if, how and when to respond.
Two hours out of each of Harwood’s seven-hour school days are dedicated to lunch blocks. The kitchen staff spends hours planning, preparing, and serving meals. Much of the planning involves coordinating with local farmers, as 25% of Harwood’s lunches are locally sourced.
BARRE — Voters in the 18-town school district that operates the Central Vermont Career Center have rejected financing a $149 million new facility.
BARRE — What they said will remain a mystery until the last of the ballots are tabulated Thursday afternoon, but voters in the 18-town Central Vermont Career Center School District have spoken with respect to a $149 million bond, which, if approved, would finance construction of a standalone, state-of-the-art center in a corner of Barre Town.
A medical issue involving a student on the way to Brookside Primary School on Tuesday morning resulted in a Waterbury bus being late on its morning route and an ambulance being called for help. The student was treated and sent home, according to school officials.
On a recent Friday night, anxious student musicians gathered backstage and their fans filled the Harwood Union High School auditorium, all in hopes of winning an exciting prize: a day in a professional recording studio, a chance to perform at Higher Ground, and the title of Battle of the Bands Champion.
The Harwood school board has tasked its Buildings and Visioning Committee with taking a deep dive into the facilities report from architectural firm TruexCullins and drafting a priority list of maintenance projects needing the most immediate attention.
The Vt. School District Redistricting Task Force heard strong support to protect Vermont’s school choice system at a recent meeting. The panel is continuing its work to propose options for redrawing the state’s school districts.
Tuesday, Nov. 4, is Election Day, and without statewide elections this year, only a handful of items are on ballots around Vermont.
Harwood Union Middle/High School’s annual Citrus Sale is now open for orders.
Harwood Union High School's Theatre Department will light up the stage for performances of “Puffs,” Thursday-Saturday, Nov. 6-8.
The Harwood School Board gets the latest enrollment data and plans to spend an hour of Wednesday’s meeting reviewing a presentation by architects, detailing maintenance needs across the district’s school buildings.
Harwood Union High School’s stage will be the battleground on Friday for the fourth annual Battle of the Bands that gathers student musicians from central and northern Vermont for competition and education.
The J. Warren and Lois McClure Foundation and the Community College of Vermont have announced an extension of a free college degree program to include students in Vermont’s high school classes of 2027 and 2028.
The Harwood School Board has decided not to take a public stand as a group on the $149 million bond to build a new Central Vermont Career Center, but several members at last week’s meeting expressed their individual support for the project.
One of Fayston’s two representatives to the Harwood Unified Union School District School Board has resigned, creating an opening for the board to fill with a Fayston resident to serve until March.
PUBLIC NOTICES
Here are upcoming meetings from the Central Vermont Career Center School District with agenda and Zoom links included.
Here is an upcoming facilities meetings from the Central Vermont Career Center School District with agenda and Zoom links included.
Here is an upcoming facilities meetings from the Central Vermont Career Center School District with agenda and Zoom links included.
From the HUUSD
The HUUSD asks for parents of young children to contact their elementary schools to help with enrollment planning.
The HUUSD School Board has developed a community survey on the implications of Act 73 in order to give our input to the legislative Task Force which is currently working on mapping out new school districts for Vermont schools.
To the Community: Across Vermont, many school districts are facing the same challenge we see in the Harwood Unified Union School District: aging facilities, limited funding, and the need for careful, community-based planning.
We want to give our district’s communities an update on what we know and what we don’t know about the future of our schools, in light of the recently passed Act 73, the governor’s education reform bill.
Local control matters. This bill would make deep cuts in funding for our schools while shifting decision-making to a regional board that does not adequately represent our communities.
The Harwood Unified Union School Board is seeking to fill two vacant seats from Waterbury and one vacant seat from Duxbury.
Dear guardians and staff: In 2021, the Vermont legislature passed a law requiring all schools to test for radon (see Section 12 of Act 72 (2021)). Our schools are beginning that testing process in December. Here are answers to some frequently asked questions about radon testing.
As most of you know our school budget failed on Town Meeting Day. There is another vote that closes on April 30th, on a revised number that reduces spending by almost $2 million.
Dear Harwood community, we write to ask you to support the school district budget during Town Meeting Day on Tuesday, March 5.
I am kindly requesting your participation in the online survey for the superintendent that the school board and I developed earlier this fall.
The School District Redistricting Task Force held its final meeting on Thursday. Since August, the group has been working to design no more than three maps of school district boundaries that attempt to achieve scale and efficiency across Vermont’s 119 school districts and 52 supervisory unions.