{"id":74,"date":"2025-03-26T13:41:18","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T13:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/ccsc\/?page_id=74"},"modified":"2025-11-10T14:15:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T14:15:50","slug":"vermont-community-schools","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/ccsc\/?page_id=74","title":{"rendered":"Vermont Community Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1545\" height=\"2000\" src=\"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/ccsc\/files\/2025\/11\/VT-Community-Schools-Map_2025-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1042\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/ccsc\/files\/2025\/11\/VT-Community-Schools-Map_2025-1-1.jpg 1545w, https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/ccsc\/files\/2025\/11\/VT-Community-Schools-Map_2025-1-1-768x994.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/ccsc\/files\/2025\/11\/VT-Community-Schools-Map_2025-1-1-1187x1536.jpg 1187w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1545px) 100vw, 1545px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/ccsc\/files\/2025\/08\/Vermont-Community-Schools-Digital-Story-Library-9-1.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Vermont Community Schools - Digital Story Library (9).\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-ff501f70-075d-43c5-96dc-910351d0794c\" href=\"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/ccsc\/files\/2025\/08\/Vermont-Community-Schools-Digital-Story-Library-9-1.pdf\">Vermont Community Schools &#8211; Digital Story Library (9)<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/ccsc\/files\/2025\/08\/Vermont-Community-Schools-Digital-Story-Library-9-1.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-ff501f70-075d-43c5-96dc-910351d0794c\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-white-color has-secondary-darkgreen-darker-10-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-017d934b5a0f16d8cf3498f3ca620f7f\">Vermont Community Schools<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Cohort 1 <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Community Schools Cohort One was funded through the passing of Vermont Act 67 \u2013 The Community Schools Act in 2021. This act allocated federal ARP ESSER (COVID-19 relief funds) for the implementation and evaluation of the Community Schools approach in rural-designated schools and districts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The following schools\/supervisory unions are the original recipients of Act 67 funding and comprise Cohort 1 of the Vermont Community Schools network:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-100\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-secondary-darkgreen-darker-10-background-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/ccsc\/?page_id=518&amp;preview=true\" style=\"border-radius:100px\">Cabot School<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-100\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-secondary-darkgreen-darker-10-background-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/ccsc\/?page_id=514&amp;preview=true\" style=\"border-radius:100px\">Hazen Union School<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-100\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-secondary-darkgreen-darker-10-background-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/ccsc\/?page_id=520&amp;preview=true\" style=\"border-radius:100px\">White River Valley Middle School<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-100\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-secondary-darkgreen-darker-10-background-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/ccsc\/?page_id=522\" style=\"border-radius:100px\">Vergennes Union Elementary School<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-100\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-secondary-darkgreen-darker-10-background-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/ccsc\/?page_id=516&amp;preview=true\" style=\"border-radius:100px\">North Country Supervisory Union<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Cohort 2<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Starting in 2025, Community Schools Cohort Two was funded through a one-year appropriation from the Vermont State Legislature to support&nbsp;the establishment of the Community Schools approach within schools and communities across the state. Community Schools Cohort Two will be further supported through continued grant funding awarded through a Congressional Direct Spending Request with support from the Office of Senator Bernie Sanders. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The following schools\/districts\/supervisory unions are the recipients of the most recent Community Schools funding and demonstrate the growing ecosystem of Community Schools across the State of Vermont:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-100\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-secondary-darkgreen-darker-10-background-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/ccsc\/?page_id=876\" style=\"border-radius:100px\">Burlington School District<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-100\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-secondary-darkgreen-darker-10-background-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/ccsc\/?page_id=878\" style=\"border-radius:100px\">Essex North Supervisory Union<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-100\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-secondary-darkgreen-darker-10-background-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/ccsc\/?page_id=880\" style=\"border-radius:100px\">Kingdom East Unified Union School District<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-100\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-secondary-darkgreen-darker-10-background-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/ccsc\/?page_id=882\" style=\"border-radius:100px\">St. Johnsbury School District<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-100\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-secondary-darkgreen-darker-10-background-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/ccsc\/?page_id=884\" style=\"border-radius:100px\">Washington Central Unified Union School District<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-100\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-secondary-darkgreen-darker-10-background-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/ccsc\/?page_id=886\" style=\"border-radius:100px\">Windham Southeast Supervisory Union<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:21px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Act 67 Community Schools Pilot Program<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Pilot We Are Community Schools_x264\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1075411519?h=3f23686410&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-16018d1d wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-75 has-custom-font-size is-style-fill has-regular-font-size\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/1075411601\/c053ec08c7?share=copy\" style=\"border-radius:100px\">click here for an extended version of the film<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-silver-lighter-50-color has-secondary-darkgreen-darker-10-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-fa4e200239ad07641cc1afbd63fedf5c\">Further Information<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover is-light\" style=\"min-height:400px;aspect-ratio:unset;\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-primary-lightgreen-darker-20-background-color has-background-dim-100 has-background-dim\"><\/span><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-cover-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-16018d1d wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-secondary-darkgreen-darker-10-background-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/ccsc\/?page_id=734&amp;preview=true&amp;_thumbnail_id=479\">Community School Resources<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover is-light\" style=\"min-height:400px;aspect-ratio:unset;\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-primary-lightgreen-darker-20-background-color has-background-dim-100 has-background-dim\"><\/span><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-cover-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-16018d1d wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-secondary-darkgreen-darker-10-background-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/ccsc\/?page_id=732&amp;preview=true&amp;_thumbnail_id=479\">The Five Pillars of Community Schools<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vermont Community Schools Cohort 1 Community Schools Cohort One was funded through the passing of Vermont Act 67 \u2013 The Community Schools Act in 2021. This act allocated federal ARP ESSER (COVID-19 relief funds) for the implementation and evaluation of the Community Schools approach in rural-designated schools and districts. The following schools\/supervisory unions are the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/ccsc\/?page_id=74\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Vermont Community Schools&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9591,"featured_media":786,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-74","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","entry"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/ccsc\/files\/2025\/03\/CCSC_communityschools_banner-02-600x400.png","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/ccsc\/files\/2025\/03\/CCSC_communityschools_banner-02-600x600.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/ccsc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/ccsc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/ccsc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/ccsc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9591"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/ccsc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":94,"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/ccsc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1043,"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/ccsc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/74\/revisions\/1043"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/ccsc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/ccsc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}