Education

The institution that will combine Vermont’s three residential state colleges into one school has a name: Vermont State University. Following public comments that ranged from support for the name to condemnation, trustees of the Vermont State Colleges System unanimously voted for its approval durin...

Updated at 9:34 a.m. The Goddard College staff union has filed an unfair labor practice with the National Labor Relations Board following a weekslong fight with the school administration over vaccine and mask mandates. Since the beginning of the pandemic, Goddard College has allowed staff to work fr...

Several alumni of Long Trail School in Dorset are backing faculty and staff who are planning a walkout next month if the school’s board chair does not resign. Five graduates of the college preparatory school are rallying fellow alumni behind Long Trail faculty and staff who sent an open letter to ...

A statewide contract for school employee health care will likely be settled in arbitration — again. Representatives from teachers unions and the Vermont School Boards Association have been bargaining since the spring to no avail. The parties have already gone through mediation and fact-finding, an...

Conservative provocateur Charlie Kirk is coming to Burlington. And his Oct. 18 speaking event is already generating controversy — and confusion — among the Queen City’s residents. The originally advertised venue for the event is no longer hosting Kirk. And his appearance is not sponsored by th...