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The secretary of education position was created in 2012 during the term of Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin. Holders of this office are: Armando Vilaseca (2012–2013) Rebecca Holcombe (2014–2018) Daniel M. French (2018–2023) Zoie Saunders (2024–present) [2]
Armando Vilaseca was the former Commissioner of the Vermont Department of Education. [1] After leaving Cuba in 1964, Vilaseca settled in West New York, New Jersey, a community with a significant Cuban American community. There he attended Memorial High School. [2]
The Governor's Institutes of Vermont (GIV), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in Winooski, Vermont, was established in 1982 under then-Governor Richard Snelling when Vermont’s Commissioner of Education and the Director of the Vermont Arts Council sought to provide greater depth in arts education to students in the state’s public schools.
Allowing everyone in Vermont to access higher education is a 'win-win' Vermont joins 24 states and the District of Columbia in allowing residents to access in-state fees and financial aid for ...
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]
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]
Thomas F. Geraghty is the Class of 1967 B. James Haddad Professor of Law, and formerly the Associate Dean for Clinical Legal Education and Director of the Bluhm Legal Clinic at the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law.
Ronald James Read (October 23, 1921 – June 2, 2014) was an American philanthropist, investor, janitor, and gas station attendant. Read grew up in Dummerston, Vermont, in an impoverished farming household. He walked or hitchhiked 4 mi (6.4 km) daily to his high school and was the first high school graduate in his family.