At its meeting tonight, the Harwood Unified Union School District School Board will consider adopting a host of new school policies – including a new policy regarding flying flags other than the U.S. and Vermont flags at schools – at what will be its final regular meeting with the current board members in place. 

In a field crowded with candidates vying for numerous Vermont superintendent positions this week, the Harwood school district made a match with its first choice candidate. 

The Harwood School Board on Thursday night chose a candidate for the district’s superintendent position, but that choice will remain under wraps until negotiations are complete as outlined in the board’s selection process.

The Harwood Unified Union School District School Board this week finalized the budget to put on the Town Meeting Day ballot and other election-related details.

A veteran superintendent from Pennsylvania, a top administrator in one of Vermont’s largest school districts, and the 2021 Vermont Superintendent of the year. 

Voters in 18 communities across the region on Town Meeting Day will decide whether to create a new school district to run the Central Vermont Career Center. 

The search for the next superintendent for the Harwood Unified Union School District continues this month with a goal of making a hiring choice by early February. 

The next three weeks on the calendar is full for the Harwood Unified Union School District board as it moves through the typical January budget exercise ahead of Town Meeting Day, this year on March 1. 

Just back back in session this week after the holiday break as thousands of new COVID-19 cases have been reported in Vermont in recent days, local school officials have announced several changes to virus-related protocols effective immediately. For starters, as of today, spectators will not be allowed at sports events.

Ahead of school returning to session after the holiday break, local school officials have alerted families to updated steps to take regarding COVID-19 testing, quarantine, etc. after state guidelines were revised this past week. 

Governor Phil Scott today announced that parents and caregivers of Vermont’s K-12 children will be able to pick up one free rapid antigen test kit per student Thursday or Friday this week at sites around Vermont. The state is encouraging parents to use these kits to test kids before they return to school next week, but a test is not a requirement for returning to school. 

Late Tuesday afternoon, families in the Harwood Unified Union School District got word that Brookside Primary School in Waterbury would close a day early for the holiday break due to not having enough staff to open on Wednesday after six new COVID-19 cases were identified. 

After a two-year hiatus, Harwood Union High School’s Music program recently presented its first in-person concert since the COVID-19 pandemic began. 

State and local Vermont school officials are alerting school communities and parents about concern over social media messages warning of threats of violence at schools around the nation on Friday, Dec. 17.