Burlington High School

A high school in Burlington, Massachusetts is moving class online Monday as officials deal with an outbreak of coronavirus cases, according to the district’s superintendent. In an email to families and staff Sunday, Superintendent Eric Conti said the district will switch to remote learning through April 12, citing 10 cases of COVID-19 in the past week. At least 130 Burlington…

In an email to families and staff Sunday, Superintendent Eric Conti the district will switch to remote learning through April 12, citing 10 cases of COVID-19 in the past week. At least 130 Burlington High School students are now in quarantine.

Burlington High School in Massachusetts is pivoting to remote learning beginning Monday due to a spike in coronavirus cases, Superintendent Dr. Eric Conti confirmed Sunday. In an email sent to the families and staff, Conti said the switch to remote learning will last through the week of April 12. Conti cited 10 cases of COVID-19 in the past week impacting…

A rare get-together for high school music students in Vermont’s largest city Wednesday highlighted how arts educators have worked hard to adapt to the era of remote learning—and are getting creative to reduce student isolation. “Even for a half hour, I’m just happy they get to see each other,” said Billy Ray Poli, the chair of the music department...

A gathering Wednesday in Burlington, Vermont, highlighted how arts educators have had to work hard to adapt to the era of remote learning — but are managing to make it work.

High schools across the country are honoring the Class of 2020 in creative ways while traditional graduation ceremonies have been called off due to COVID-19. In Burlington, Vermont, the high school graduation will take three days. Monday was graduation day. Tuesday will be, too. And so will Wednesday. The city’s high school went with a three-day ceremony because it determined…

High schools across Vermont have come up with their own ways to honor graduates amid the coronavirus pandemic. In Burlington, a non-traditional ceremony stretched over three days.

Several members of the Burlington High School Seahorses received yellow cards during a game in October when they took off their official team jerseys to reveal slogans calling for women’s pay equity.

A Vermont girls soccer team is featured prominently in Sports Illustrated’s Sportsperson of the Year profile of U.S. star Megan Rapinoe after both raised awareness inequalities in the game.

Players from a girls’ high school varsity soccer team in Vermont received with yellow cards after taking their jerseys off mid-game to display shirts stating,”#Equal Pay”. League rules bar the girls from wearing uniforms with slogans on them in official games, but they’re fine for practices and off-field activities, the team’s coach noted before the Friday game.

A girls’ high school varsity soccer team in Vermont is taking a page out of the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team’s playbook, by mixing sports and social activism. “We want to show that we’re all going to stand behind this issue and we’re all going to fight for it together,” Burlington High School freshman Lydia Sheeser said of her team’s...

Young Vermont athletes are taking inspiration from the U.S. Women’s National Team in their push for equal pay.

An icon from the country’s civil rights movement paid a visit to Vermont Tuesday, meeting with students who have been learning about his contributions to history. “We are one people — we are one family,” Rep. John Lewis, D-Georgia, told a crowd at downtown Burlington’s Flynn Center for the Performing Arts.

Rep. John Lewis was in Vermont to meet with students learning about his contributions to social change.

Criminal charges have been dropped against a longtime Vermont police officer who was accused of assaulting a teenager. Dave Scibek of Colchester is a former Burlington detective and former chief of the Malletts Bay Fire Department, who had been teaching high schoolers in the criminal justice program at the Burlington Technical Center.

A newly-converted space inside the high school in Vermont’s largest city is drawing praise from transgender and gender-nonconforming students, as well as from advocates for LGBT youth. “It’s so awesome that we finally have one,” Burlington High School freshman Ezra Totten said of the school’s new gender-neutral locker room.

Editors of the student newspaper at Burlington High School are welcoming an invitation from the Vermont city’s school district to participate in designing new policies around student journalism after young reporters said they were censored last week. “We are excited to work with them to create a new policy, for sure,” Jenna Peterson, one of the co-editors of The Register,...

Students in Vermont’s largest city walked out of school Wednesday, joining peers from around the country in a day of activism for gun reform.

A criminal justice instructor is accused of applying a painful nerve hold to a 16-year-old girl

The teachers’ union in Vermont’s largest city has announced it will go on strike Thursday.