Our school district is pushing back our high school start time from 8 AM to 8:40 PM next year. We mainly did it because of a shortage of bus drivers but it’s great to see that it will also have health benefits for our teenagers: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/high-school-students-need-more-sleep-and-later-school-start-times/ #VT #Vermont #EWSD #education #Sleep

The projected tax rate, before the common level of appraisal (CLA) is projected to decrease for the 3rd straight year - and for the 5th time in six years.

https://www.ewsd.org/budget

#EWSD #EssexVT #Westford #VTED

The #EWSD School Board is proposing a budget for 2023-24 that is a 8.5% increase over last year but could have a negligible impact on tax rates

https://www.essexreporter.com/news/ewsd-recommends-an-fy24-budget-of-90-7-million-no-that-is-not-all-coming/article_8d3164ca-a3f2-11ed-b013-73fe39fa6605.html

#EssexVT #Westford #Vermont #VTED

@creek Consolidation has been good for some districts like mine #EWSD but geography & other factors make it a different/difficult proposition in more rural parts of the state #Vermont

Tonight community members from the Essex-Westford Scool District met to continue its work on designing our “portrait of a graduate,” which will serve as our North Star #EWSD #VT #vted #education #vermont

Just published: the latest paper in our collection on web surveys, a case study from Luxembourg:
'Results and challenges of running the Web Survey on Drugs in Luxembourg: a major contribution to understanding the drug situation'
Download:
https://www.emcdda.europa.eu/publications/insights/results-and-challenges-running-web-survey-drugs-luxembourg_en
#EWSD

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/EMCDDA/status/1588466890422325249