Letter to the editor: Ripton school solutions need careful study

Like many who attended Monday night’s ACSD meeting, I left feeling incredibly disappointed with the board’s actions in the meeting. The discussion centered around immediately removing the K-2 students at Ripton elementary and placing them into other area schools.

The Addison Central School District (ACSD) on Aug. 20 honored its top staff and educators for 2024, one of whom has also earned statewide accolades for her performance.

Lashawn Whitmore-Sells likes just about everything about her new gig as Shoreham Elementary School principal — even her hour-long commute.

Jenny Urban has served the ACSD as a grades 1 and 2 classroom teacher, a paraeducator, an International Baccalaureate team leader, dean of students at Mary Hogan Elementary School, assistant principal of both Bridport and Shoreham elementary schools, and … (read more)

The Middlebury selectboard has set the fiscal year 2025 municipal tax rate of 88.94 cents per $100 in property value, representing a 2.46-cent bump from the current rate of 86.48 cents.

Here are the scheduled school bus pick-up and drop-off times for students in Cornwall, Salisbury, Bridport, Shoreham, Weybridge, Ripton and Middlebury, as well for students over the mountain.

Communication will be among Nadya Bech-Conger’s top priorities during her first several months helming the Bingham School, whose halls will soon ring again with the voices of around 85 students in grades K-5. It’s one of seven elementary schools — along w … (read more)

While Wendy Baker is new to the Addison Central School District, her recent hire as the ACSD’s new superintendent is somewhat of a homecoming.

I would like to respond to the recent article by John Flowers on the conclusion of negotiations between ACEa teachers union and the ACSD school board.

The Addison Central School District Board on Tuesday endorsed the hiring of three new principals to lead the Bridport, Cornwall and Shoreham elementary schools.

The Addison Central School District and its teachers’ union this week tentatively agreed to a new contract for educators that will, among other things, afford them base-pay increases of 6%, 5% and 3% during the next three academic years.

School district leaders have screened all the applicants for coming principal vacancies at three elementary schools; students, their families and school staff can meet the candidates this week.

Addison Central School District Interim Superintendent Tim Williams will cede his position to his successor a month earlier than anticipated.

Heather Raabe, principal of Cornwall’s Bingham Memorial Elementary School, has confirmed she’ll be stepping down at the end of this academic year.

Thanks to new software and reporting requirements, the Addison Central School District has, for the past seven months, been able to chart both minor and major K-12 student behavior incidents on its campuses. And the numbers aren’t pretty.