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Focus on Act 46

On towns’ options for school choice and the pressure for change
Wednesday, May 4, 2016 — Issue 355

• Viewpoint: Education Secretary Rebecca Holcombe on towns' ultimate autonomy in offering school choice to their respective students.

• Counterpoint: Compass School Director Rick Gordon responds to Holcombe's piece.

• Viewpoint: David Schoales, a member of the Brattleboro Selectboard and Town School Board, offers his personal point of view on the rush to change.

Voices

‘Nobody knows what I’m going to do’

By
MacLean Gander

MacLean Gander is retired from a long career as a professor and administrator at Landmark...

On being Jewish now

By
Deborah Lee Luskin

Deborah Lee Luskin , one of this newspaper's original columnists, blogs at deborahleeluskin.com. WILLIAMSVILLE-I have...

Some notes on bravery (and Brahms)

By
Meg Donahue

Meg Donahue is cofounder and chief creative officer of MamaSezz.com, an online enterprise that works...

Looking beyond generalizations

By
Emily Carris Duncan

Emily Carris Duncan (ecarrisduncan.com) represents the Windham-6 district (Wilmington, Whitingham, and Halifax) in the Vermont...

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News

Dozens push WSESD board to hire interim supt. for the duration

By
Virginia Ray
Wednesday, March 23, 2022 — Issue 656

The topic of about 70 minutes of public comment at a recent Windham Southeast School District school board meeting was the future career of Interim Superintendent Mark Speno, who attended the meeting but said nothing. On March 16 - the night after 300 people jammed Zoom for the WSESD school board public forum to discuss masking [story, A5] - 175 people were again on Zoom. Approximately 50 people - mostly students and school officials - attended in person. Public comment...

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Voices

Evans-Frantz: informed, pragmatic, and community-driven

By
Abigail Vondell
Tuesday, February 4, 2025 — Issue 801

GUILFORD-I met Isaac Evans-Frantz last summer while working at the Governor's Institutes of Vermont in Montpelier. Isaac was on the faculty of the Global Issues and Youth Action Institute, and we were paired up as teaching partners. Spending time planning and discussing issues with Isaac became a nightly routine, and a friendship blossomed. I watched him approach a classroom of high school students from all over Vermont with respect, curiosity, and great passion for the subject matter. Isaac brought his...

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Arts

Co-curators, artists will offer tour of ‘In Nature’s Grasp’

Wednesday, May 1, 2024 — Issue 763

BRATTLEBORO-Inspired by the natural world, artists have long contemplated diverse themes such as history, science, memory, and spirituality. Eleven contemporary artists explore these ideas and more in the exhibition "In Nature's Grasp," currently on view at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC). The public is invited to join a curator tour of the 32 artworks in the exhibit on Thursday, May 9, at 7 p.m. BMAC Director of Exhibitions Sarah Freeman, guest curator Michael Abrams, and several of the...

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