Title 16, Title 16: Education

§ 254. Educator licensure; employment of superintendents (a) The Secretary shall sign and keep a user agreement with the Vermont Crime Information Center. (b) The Secretary shall request and obtain from the Vermont Crime Information Center the criminal record for any person apply…

§ 255. Public and independent school employees; contractors (a) Superintendents, headmasters of recognized or approved independent schools, and their contractors shall request criminal record information for the following: (1) the person a superintendent or headmaster is prepared…

§ 256. Continued validity of criminal record check; maintenance of records (a)(1) Anyone required to request a criminal record check under this subchapter about a person who previously has undergone a check, regardless of whether the check was for student teaching, licensure, or …

§ 257. Fees for fingerprinting; Fingerprint Fee Special Fund State, county, and municipal law enforcement agencies may charge a fee of up to $35.00 for providing applicants or other individuals with a set of classifiable fingerprints as required by this subchapter. No fee shall b…

§ 258. Notice; license applications; job applications; employees (a) Each application for an initial teaching license shall contain a statement that the applicant will be required to undergo a criminal record check, including an FBI fingerprint record check, and that receipt of t…

§ 259. Penalties; remedy (a) A person who, without authorization, discloses criminal record check information received under this subchapter shall be fined not more than $2,000.00. Each unauthorized disclosure shall constitute a separate violation. (b) A person who suffers damage…

§ 260. School board policies Each school board shall adopt a policy on supervision of volunteers and work study students. Policies shall require that superintendents, headmasters of recognized or approved independent schools, and their contractors check the names and birth dates …

§ 261. Organization and adjustment of supervisory unions (a) The State Board shall review on its own initiative or when requested as per subsection (b) of this section and may regroup the supervisory unions of the State or create new supervisory unions in such manner as to afford…

§ 261a. Duties of supervisory union board (a) Duties. The board of each supervisory union shall: (1) Establish a supervisory union-wide curriculum, by either developing the curriculum or assisting the member districts to develop it jointly, and ensure implementation of the curric…

§ 262. Meetings; election of officers (a) Within 30 days from the date a supervisory union is established by the State Board, the Secretary shall call a meeting of the school directors of the school districts in the supervisory union. The number of directors shall be determined a…

§ 263. Quorum A majority of the school districts comprising a supervisory union shall be represented at a supervisory union meeting and a majority of all members of the supervisory union board shall be present in order to constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. A leg…

§ 264. Majority vote of school directors (a) Elections and the transaction of all other business at such supervisory union meeting shall be determined by majority vote of all school directors present. (b) A supervisory union may establish an executive committee consisting of the …

§ 266. School board having more than three members For the purpose of holding meetings and transacting the business of a supervisory union, the school board of any district assigned to a supervisory union, and having more than three members, shall elect from such board three memb…

§ 267. Joint agreements among supervisory unions (a) Supervisory unions, or administrative units not within a supervisory union, in order to provide services cooperatively, may at any annual or special meeting of the supervisory unions, by a majority vote of the directors present…

§ 301. Apportionment of expenses Unless otherwise agreed upon, each school district shall pay a proportionate share of the salary and expenses of the superintendent and the expenses of the supervisory union based on the number of enrolled students in each member school district. …

§ 321. Treasury; uses A supervisory union shall have a treasury for the purpose of transacting the financial affairs of the supervisory union and any joint operations among or within supervisory unions authorized under section 267 of this title. (Added 1966, No. 59 (Sp. Sess.), §…

§ 322. Treasurer; salary; expenses; duties (a) A supervisory union board shall elect a supervisory union treasurer at least annually, fix the salary and expenses, and determine the amount of a bond for him or her. (b) Nothing shall preclude a supervisory union treasurer from also…

§ 323. Audit by public accountant Annually, the supervisory union board shall employ one or more public accountants to audit the financial statements of the supervisory union and its member districts. The audits shall be conducted in accordance with generally accepted government …

§ 324. Term of office; vacancy The term of office of a supervisory union treasurer shall be for one year from July 1 through June 30. If the office becomes vacant, the voting members of the supervisory union board shall elect a new supervisory union treasurer to take office on el…

§ 325. Removal from office A supervisory union treasurer may be removed from office for cause by a majority vote of the members of the supervisory union board present and eligible to vote at a meeting called for that purpose. (Added 1966, No. 59 (Sp. Sess.), § 1(e); amended 2013,…

§ 421. Town school districts (a) A town shall constitute a school district, except that when a town contains an incorporated school district, the town school district shall consist of that part of the town not embraced within the incorporated school district. (b) It is the policy…

§ 422. Meetings (a) The annual town meeting shall be the annual town school district meeting. However, at any annual or special school district meeting, the electorate may authorize the annual school district meeting to be held on another date so long as the meeting is held after…

§ 423. Directors, number, election; term (a) Each town school district shall have a school board consisting of three directors, one of whom shall be elected by ballot at each annual meeting of the town school district for a term of three years, beginning the day of election or un…

§ 424. Vacancies (a) Except as otherwise provided for a school district operating under a charter, within 30 days of the creation of the vacancy, the school board shall, by majority vote of those present and voting, appoint a qualified person to fill a vacancy in the town school …

§ 425. Other town school district officers Unless otherwise voted, the town clerk shall by virtue of the office perform the same duties for the town school district in addition to other duties assigned by this title. (Added 1969, No. 298 (Adj. Sess.), § 45; amended 1979, No. 23, …

§ 426. Duties of the town school district treasurer (a) The town treasurer shall be treasurer of the town school district unless, by vote of the town school district, a town school district treasurer is elected. He or she shall keep in a separate bank account all the money approp…

§ 427. Grand list The grand list of a town or incorporated school district shall consist of one percent of the listed value of the real and personal estate taxable in the town or incorporated school district. (Added 1969, No. 298 (Adj. Sess.), § 47; amended 1971, No. 261 (Adj. Se…

§ 428. Budget to be voted (a) At each annual town school district meeting, the electorate shall vote such sums of money as it deems necessary for the support of schools. If such sums are not approved or acted upon at the annual meeting, the electorate shall vote such questions at…

§ 429. Loans Notwithstanding subsection 4029(b) of this title, a school board may draw orders for loans without interest to the town’s general fund, and the town selectboard may draw orders for loans without interest to the school district fund, the loans to be secured by a note …

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§ 471. Application of other laws (a) The provisions of this title relating to the administration and maintenance of public schools; to school meetings and voting; to grand lists; to the raising and expending of school monies; to monies apportioned by the State Board; to sharing i…

§ 472. Meetings; warnings (a) A district may, if it so votes at its annual meeting on the first Tuesday in March, fix a different date for holding its annual meetings, provided the date is not earlier than March 15 nor later than June 30. A notice of the proposed change shall be …

§ 473. Eligibility of voters The moderator, clerk, and members of the prudential committee shall decide all questions as to the eligibility of a person to vote in a school meeting.

§ 474. Records The clerk shall keep a record of the votes and proceedings of the school district meetings and give certified copies thereof when required. A clerk who neglects to perform this duty shall forfeit $20.00 to the district, to be recovered in an action on this statute.…

§ 475. Statistical information Annually, on or before August 15, the prudential committee shall return to the Secretary answers to the statistical inquiries that he or she may address to them. (Amended 1975, No. 48, § 4, eff. April 15, 1975; 2013, No. 92 (Adj. Sess.), § 51, eff. …

§ 477. Merger of town and incorporated school districts (a) An incorporated school district, by a majority vote of the legal voters present and voting at any meeting legally warned, may surrender its charter as a corporation for the maintenance of public schools or such part of i…

§ 478. Prudential committee; vacancies Unless the incorporated district has a provision in its charter to the contrary, when a vacancy occurs on a prudential committee, the remaining members shall appoint a person to fill the vacancy until the next annual or special meeting. The …

§ 491. Election; notice to clerk At each annual meeting, an incorporated school district shall elect from among the legal voters of such district a moderator, collector, and treasurer and may elect a clerk. All school officers shall enter upon their duties on July 1, following th…

§ 492. Powers, duties, and liabilities; bonds (a) The powers, duties, and liabilities of the collector, treasurer, prudential committee, and clerk shall be like those of a town collector, treasurer, board of school directors, and the school board clerk, respectively. (b) Before e…

§ 493. Moderator The moderator shall preside at such district meetings; and, in his or her absence, a moderator pro tempore shall be chosen to preside. (Amended 2013, No. 92 (Adj. Sess.), § 53, eff. Feb. 14, 2014.)

§ 494. Collector of taxes The district may elect the collector of town taxes to be collector of taxes for the district, although he or she is not an inhabitant of that district. When a collector accepts the office, he or she shall do so in writing, and the acceptance shall be rec…

§ 495. Vacancies (a) When a vacancy occurs in the office of a district officer, the district shall fill the vacancy at a special meeting. (b) A vacancy occurring in the office of clerk of an incorporated school district caused by death, resignation, or otherwise shall be filled b…

§ 496. Books and papers to be turned over to successor When a district office becomes vacant by expiration of the term of office of the incumbent or otherwise, and a successor is elected or appointed, the successor shall, on demand, be entitled to receive the books and papers of …

§ 511. Budget (a) At a meeting legally warned for that purpose, the electorate within an incorporated school district shall vote such sums of money as it deems necessary for the support of schools. If the sums are not approved or acted upon at the annual meeting, the electorate s…

§ 512. Payment of monies collected to treasurer On the written request of one or more members of the prudential committee, a school district tax collector shall pay to the treasurer monies belonging to the district that have been collected to the date of the request and submit hi…

§ 514. Abatement The officers of the district, except the tax collector, shall be a board for the abatement of district taxes, and it shall have the same power that the board for the abatement of town taxes has in the abatement of municipal taxes. On request of the tax collector,…