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

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

Rutland School Administrators Retaliated Against Educators Instead of Working to Stem Student-on-Staff Attacks Union files unfair labor practice charge RUTLAND – Instead of working to stem a years-long pattern of physical attacks by students on Rutland City Public Schools’ educators, the district’s leadership defied recommendations from state workplace safety experts and retaliated against the educators’ union, according to an unfair labor practice charge filed yesterday. The charge comes after four years of escalating