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Addison Northeast explores school unity

Posted on November 23, 2011 |
By Andrew Stein



BRISTOL — School boards in the five Addison Northeast Supervisory Union towns of Bristol, Lincoln, Starksboro, New Haven and Monkton last week met with consultant Ray Proulx to explore options for school consolidation.

Proulx, who last year produced a report on costs and benefits of consolidation in the Addison Central Supervisory Union, laid out several options. Superintendent Evelyn Howard said each board should continue to discuss unification options at their upcoming meetings.

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Does school consolidation cut costs?

Posted on November 23, 2011 |
By Andrew Stein



BRISTOL — With discussions like the one in Bristol last week about how schools can work together to save money by working together, many are asking the question, “Does school consolidation really cut costs?”

The Legislature has offered Vermont towns an incentive to perform RED (Regional Education District) studies to see how a type of school consolidation would work for them.

The RED study template, created by the Vermont Department of Education, explains the reasoning behind RED-study incentives:

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