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The Vermont State Board of Education supervises and manages the Department of Education and the public school system. The board makes regulations governing attendance and records of attendance of all pupils; standards for student performance, adult basic education programs, approval of independent schools, disbursement of funds, and equal access to education for all Vermont students. [1]
This is a complete list of school districts in Vermont. Union school districts necessarily overlap (include) other, often town-based or village-based, school districts. Union school districts necessarily overlap (include) other, often town-based or village-based, school districts.
Spaulding High School is named after Jacob Shedd Spaulding (1811–1880) who was a teacher and principal of the private school called Barre Academy [2] established on what later became the site of the Vermont History Center [3] on Washington Street in Barre.
Barre (/ ˈ b ær i / BARR-ee) is a town in Washington County, Vermont, United States. The population was 7,923 at the 2020 census, making it the 3rd largest municipality in Washington County and the 16th largest municipality in Vermont. [ 3 ]
In 2007, state costs for special education was $264 million, more than double what it was in 1998. In 2008, 14% of public school students qualified for special help. [33] In 2010 Vermont ranked 49th out of 50 states in the nation for the amount spent subsidizing higher education, per capita. [34]
There was a great need for a program for adults who had not completed college, to obtain degrees without disrupting their family lives or careers. The Adult Degree Program (ADP), created by Evalyn Bates, was established in 1963. It was the first low-residency adult education program in the country. [3]
The school was named for Jacob Shedd Spaulding (1811-188), principal from 1852 to 1880 of the Barre Academy, the private school that occupied the site from 1852 to 1885. Spaulding was a graduate from Dartmouth College and a successful teacher at the Bakersfield Academy in Vermont before coming to Barre. He was a respected Vermont educator of ...
Barre Academy was a school in Barre, Vermont in operation from 1852 to 1885. The institution was incorporated by the Vermont Legislature in 1849. [ 1 ] The school building was constructed in 1852, [ 1 ] and the school "opened on September 1, 1852 for the fall term". [ 2 ]