VERMONT-NEA CALLS ON SCHOOLS, SUPERINTENDENTS TO CONTINUE PROTECTING RIGHTS OF ALL STUDENTS MONTPELIER -- Vermont-NEA deplores President Trump’s decision reversing guidance protecting the rights of transgender students from discrimination. The educators’ union notes that the president’s action does not change federal law protecting all students from discrimination, and calls on all Vermont superintendents to join educators in making sure every student feels welcomed and protected.  The following statement can be attributed to

Senate Approval of Expanded Farm-to-School Bill Great News for Vermont’s Students, Farms and Rural Economy State’s educators know the link between learning and the availability of good, nutritious food MONTPELIER – The Senate’s passage today of an expanded farm-to-school bill is great news for Vermont’s students, farmers, and rural economy, according to the president of the state’s largest educators union. The following statement can be attributed to Martha Allen, a K-12 librarian who

Vermont-NEA Gives Scott Education Plans an Incomplete Governor’s vision cannot be achieved by firing educators and crippling communities’ investment in their children MONTPELIER – Gov. Phil Scott’s education proposals will do great harm to Vermont’s local public schools by laying off hundreds of educators, shuttering schools and cutting the pay of the men and women who teach the state’s children, according to the president of Vermont-NEA. “Governor Scott’s goal of making our public