VERMONT – A new lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Vermont allege the Vermont Department for Children and Families went to extraordinary and illegal lengths to remove a child from its mother’s custody, aided by an internal program that monitors the pregnancies of multiple Vermonters, The 30-page[Read More…]
Peter D'Auria, VTDigger
Auditor Questions Legality of $1M Yellow Barn Grant
MONTPELIER – Vermont allocated more than $50 million in federal Covid-19 stimulus money without properly conducting due diligence on the businesses and nonprofits who received that funding, the state auditor said in a new report. The 83-page report, dated Sept. 27, raised concerns about two federally funded grants administered by Vermont’s[Read More…]
New Student Enrollment at VSU Ticks Up
VERMONT – More than 1,700 first-year students are expected to enroll at Vermont State University, an increase of about 14% compared with fall 2023 and a sign of hope for the public, multicampus university. The roughly 200-student enrollment bump in the university’s second-ever fall semester, just over a year after[Read More…]
Toxic Substances in Craftsbury & Woodbury Schools
CRAFTSBURY – For just over two years, Craftsbury Academy, which educates roughly 140 students on its Craftsbury Common campus, has had no potable running water. Instead of using fountains, students and staff drink from bottled water that is trucked in at the state’s expense. But it’s not only drinking water[Read More…]
