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2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 - Education › Chapter 133 - State Funding of Public Education › § 4013. English learners services; State aid

§ 4013. English learners services; State aid
(a) Definitions. As used in this section:
(1) “Applicable federal laws” mean the Equal Education Opportunities Act (20 U.S.C. § 1703), Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. §§ 2000d et seq.), and Titles I and III of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. §§ 6301 et seq. and 20 U.S.C. §§ 6801 et seq.), each as amended.
(2) “EL services” mean instructional and support personnel and services that are required under applicable federal laws for EL students and their families.
(3) “EL students” or “EL pupils” mean students who have been identified as English learners through the screening protocols required under 20 U.S.C. § 6823(b)(2).
(b) Required EL services. Each school district shall:
(1) screen students to determine which students are EL students and therefore qualify for EL services;
(2) assess and monitor the progress of EL students;
(3) provide EL services;
(4) budget sufficient resources through a combination of State and federal categorical aid and local education spending to provide EL services;
(5) report expenditures on EL services annually to the Agency of Education through the financial reporting system as required by the Agency; and
(6) evaluate the effectiveness of their EL programs and report educational outcomes of EL students as required by the Agency and applicable federal laws.
(c) Agency of Education support and quality assurance. The Agency of Education shall:
(1) provide guidance and program support to all school districts with EL students as required under applicable federal law, including:
(A) professional development resources for EL teachers and support personnel; and
(B) information on best practices and nationally recognized language development standards; and
(2) prescribe, collect, and analyze financial and student outcome data from school districts to ensure that districts are providing high-quality EL services and expending sufficient resources to provide these services.
(d) Categorical aid. In addition to the EL weight under section 4010 of this title, a school district that has, as determined annually on October 1 of the year:
(1) one to five EL students enrolled shall receive State aid of $25,000.00 for that school year; or
(2) six to 25 EL students enrolled shall receive State aid of $50,000.00 for that school year.
(e) Annual appropriation. Annually, the General Assembly shall include in its appropriation for statewide education spending under subsection 4011(a) of this title an appropriation to provide aid to school districts for EL services under this section.
(f) Payment. On or before November 1 of each year, the State Treasurer shall withdraw from the Education Fund, based on warrant of the Commissioner of Finance and Management, and shall forward to each school district the aid amount it is owed under this section. (Added 2021, No. 127 (Adj. Sess.), § 10, eff. July 1, 2024.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 - Education › Chapter 133 - State Funding of Public Education › § 4014. Early education

§ 4014. Early education
(a) The Secretary may grant funds for voluntary early education programs. The funds may be used for personnel costs, training of parents and staff, materials and educational equipment, and other costs related to early education programs.
(b) The Secretary shall solicit proposals for early education programs from community organizations serving young children. Community organizations include school districts; other public agencies, including Head Start programs; and private agencies, including child care programs and parent-child centers.
(c) The Secretary also shall investigate to determine those areas that are not served by early education programs and whose children are in greatest need of such services. In those areas, the Secretary shall provide assistance in preparing proposals for grants. In conducting the investigation, the Secretary shall collect and analyze demographic factors that are likely to predict unusual community needs for early education services. The Secretary shall distribute the results of the analysis to all interested persons.
(d) The Secretary shall evaluate proposals based on the following criteria:
(1) The program will serve additional children with special needs, such as those who are economically disadvantaged, those who have limited English language skills, those who have a disability, or those who have experienced or are at risk of abuse or neglect.
(2) The program will rely on early screening of children’s development to determine need.
(3) The program will provide experiential learning activities that are developmentally appropriate for three- and four-year old children. Such activities may be provided in home or group settings or a combination of the two.
(4) The program will include active parental involvement in program design and in making decisions about services.
(5) The program has been cooperatively developed by community and school organizations that serve young children in a town or group of towns.
(6) There is a demonstrated need for the program.
(7) The program considers the transportation needs of children and parents.
(8) The program enables children with disabilities to be served in settings with peers who do not have a disability.
(9) The program includes voluntary training for parents.
(e) The Secretary shall give preference to programs to be offered in parts of the State that do not have early education services at the time of the application.
(f) Grant proposals shall be submitted to the Secretary. Grants shall be for one year but may be renewed. No grant may exceed $30,000.00. The Secretary may, in his or her discretion, set other terms of the grant. (Added 1987, No. 68, § 3; amended 2011, No. 58, § 6, eff. May 31, 2011; 2013, No. 92 (Adj. Sess.), § 239, eff. Feb. 14, 2014; 2013, No. 96 (Adj. Sess.), § 81; 2021, No. 20, § 70.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 - Education › Chapter 133 - State Funding of Public Education › § 4015. Merger support for merged districts

§ 4015. Merger support for merged districts
(a) A school district that was voluntarily formed under 2010 Acts and Resolves No. 153, 2012 Acts and Resolves No. 156, or 2015 Acts and Resolves No. 46, each as amended, and received a merger support grant shall continue to receive that merger support grant, subject to the provisions in subsection (c) of this section.
(b) A school district that was involuntarily formed under the Final Report of Decisions and Order on Statewide School District Merger Decisions Pursuant to Act 46, Secs. 8(b) and 10 dated November 28, 2018 and that received a small schools grant in fiscal year 2020 shall receive an annual merger support grant in that amount, subject to the provisions in subsection (c) of this section.
(c)(1) Payment of a merger support grant under this section shall not be made in any year that the school district receives a small school weight under section 4010 of this title.
(2) Payment of a merger support grant under this section shall continue annually unless explicitly repealed by the General Assembly; provided, however, that the Secretary shall discontinue payment of the grant in the fiscal year following the cessation of operations of the school that made the district originally eligible for the grant, and further provided that if the building that houses the school that made the district originally eligible for the grant is consolidated with another school into a renovated or new school building, then the Secretary shall continue to pay the grant during the repayment term of any bonded indebtedness incurred in connection with the consolidation-related renovation or construction. (Added 1997, No. 71 (Adj. Sess.), § 92, eff. March 11, 1998; amended 1999, No. 49, § 3, eff. June 2, 1999; 1999, No. 66 (Adj. Sess.), § 39, eff. Feb. 8, 2000; 2003, No. 68, § 23, eff. July 1, 2004; 2003, No. 76 (Adj. Sess.), § 27, eff. Feb. 17, 2004; 2007, No. 82, § 28; 2009, No. 44, § 19, eff. May 21, 2009; 2011, No. 129 (Adj. Sess.), § 7, eff. May 11, 2012; 2013, No. 92 (Adj. Sess.), § 240, eff. Feb. 14, 2014; 2015, No. 48, § 6; 2015, No. 46, § 20, eff. July 1, 2019; 2021, No. 73, § 20, eff. June 8, 2021; 2021, No. 127 (Adj. Sess.), § 26, eff. July 1, 2024.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 - Education › Chapter 133 - State Funding of Public Education › § 4016. Reimbursement for transportation expenditures

§ 4016. Reimbursement for transportation expenditures
(a) A school district or supervisory union that incurs allowable transportation expenditures shall receive a transportation reimbursement grant each year. The grant shall be equal to 50 percent of allowable transportation expenditures; provided, however, that in any year the total amount of grants under this subsection shall not exceed the total amount of adjusted base year transportation grant expenditures. The total amount of base year transportation grant expenditures shall be $10,000,000.00 for fiscal year 1997, increased each year thereafter by the annual price index for state and local government purchases of goods and services. If in any year the total amount of the grants under this subsection exceed the adjusted base year transportation grant expenditures, the amount of each grant awarded shall be reduced proportionately. Transportation grants paid under this section shall be paid from the Education Fund and shall be added to adjusted education payment receipts paid under section 4011 of this title.
(b) In this section, “allowable transportation expenditures” means the costs of transporting students to and from school for regular classroom services and shall not include expenditures for transporting students participating in curricular activities that take place off the school grounds or for transporting students participating in cocurricular activities. The State Board shall further define allowable transportation expenditures by rule.
(c) A district or supervisory union may apply and the Secretary may pay for extraordinary transportation expenditures incurred due to geographic or other conditions such as the need to transport students out of the school district to attend another school because the district does not maintain a public school. The State Board shall define extraordinary transportation expenditures by rule. The total amount of base year extraordinary transportation grant expenditures shall be $250,000.00 for fiscal year 1997, increased each year thereafter by the annual price index for state and local government purchases of goods and services. Extraordinary transportation expenditures shall not be paid out of the funds appropriated under subsection (b) of this section for other transportation expenditures. Grants paid under this section shall be paid from the Education Fund and shall be added to adjusted education payment receipts paid under section 4011 of this title. (Added 2003, No. 107 (Adj. Sess.), § 12; amended 2013, No. 92 (Adj. Sess.), § 241, eff. Feb. 14, 2014.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 - Education › Chapter 133 - State Funding of Public Education › § 4018. Afterschool and summer learning programs

§ 4018. Afterschool and summer learning programs
(a) Education Fund grants in an amount equal to the receipts from the sales and use tax imposed by 32 V.S.A. chapter 233 on retail sales of cannabis or cannabis products in this State, net of any administrative costs per subdivision (b)(4) of this section, shall be used to fund grant programs for the expansion of summer and afterschool programs with an emphasis on increasing access in underserved areas of the State.
(b) The Secretary of Education shall administer the grant programs, as follows:
(1) Grants shall be used to support a mixed delivery system for afterschool and summer programming. Eligible recipients can be public, private, or nonprofit organizations.
(2) Grants may be used for technical assistance, program implementation, program expansion, program sustainability, and related costs.
(3) Grants may be used to directly target communities with low existing capacity to serve youth in afterschool and summer settings.
(4) The Agency may use up to $500,000 for administrative costs to allow for the support of the grant program and technical assistance to communities. This could include subcontracts to support the grant programs.
(c) An Advisory Committee is created to support the Secretary of Education in administering funds pursuant to this section. The Agency shall provide administrative and technical support to the Committee. The Committee is to be composed of:
(1) the State’s Chief Prevention Officer;
(2) the Commissioner for Children and Families or designee;
(3) the Commissioner of Health or designee;
(4) the Commissioner of Mental Health or designee;
(5) the Secretary of Natural Resources or designee;
(6) the Secretary of Commerce and Community Development or designee;
(7) the Vermont Afterschool Executive Director or designee; and
(8) a representative from the Governor’s Office.
(d) On or before each November 15, the Agency of Education shall submit to the General Assembly a plan to fund grants in furtherance of the purposes of subsection (a) of this section and report outcomes data on the grants made during the previous year. The Agency shall also report on the number of programs, slots, weeks, or hours; geographic distribution; and what is known about costs to families. The report should be inclusive of 21C programming. The amount of grant funds awarded shall be in alignment with the actual revenue collected from the sales and use tax imposed by 32 V.S.A. § 233 on cannabis or cannabis products in this State. Discrepancies between the amount of grant funds awarded and actual revenue shall be reconciled through the budget adjustment process. The provisions of 2 V.S.A. § 20(d) (expiration of required reports) shall not apply to the plan to be made under this subsection. (Added 2023, No. 78, § E.500.1, eff. July 1, 2023.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 - Education › Chapter 133 - State Funding of Public Education › § 4027. Education Fund transfer amounts

§ 4027. Education Fund transfer amounts
(a) [Repealed.]
(b) Annually, on or before June 1, each superintendent shall report to the Agency, on a form prescribed by the Secretary, each education budget that was adopted by May 1 for the following fiscal year by the member districts of the supervisory union and for which no petition for reconsideration has been filed. A superintendent shall report a budget adopted following May 1, to the Agency, between 30 to 40 days following adoption or, if a petition for reconsideration has been filed, within 10 days of final adoption of the budget. (Added 1997, No. 60, § 18, eff. July 1, 1998; amended 1997, No. 71 (Adj. Sess.), §§ 5, 95, eff. March 11, 1998; 1999, No. 49, § 20, eff. June 2, 1999; 1999, No. 62, § 174a; 1999, No. 108 (Adj. Sess.), § 4, eff. May 10, 2000; 1999, No. 152 (Adj. Sess.), § 166a; 2001, No. 63, § 165a, eff. June 16, 2001; 2003, No. 68, § 19, eff. June 18, 2003; 2003, No. 107 (Adj. Sess.), § 21; 2003, No. 122 (Adj. Sess.), § 294w; 2013, No. 92 (Adj. Sess.), § 242, eff. Feb. 14, 2014.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 - Education › Chapter 133 - State Funding of Public Education › § 4030. Data submission; corrections

§ 4030. Data submission; corrections
(a) Upon discovering an error or change in data submitted to the Secretary for the purpose of determining payments to or from the Education Fund, a school district shall report the error or change to the Secretary as soon as possible. Any budget deficit or surplus due to the error or change shall be carried forward to the following year.
[Subsection (b) effective until July 1, 2024; see also subsection (b) effective July 1, 2024 set out below.]
(b) The Secretary shall use data submitted on or before January 15 prior to the fiscal year that begins the following July 1, in order to calculate the amounts due each school district for any fiscal year for the following:
(1) transportation aid due under section 4016 of this title; and
(2) the small school support grant due under section 4015 of this title.
[Subsection (b) effective July 1, 2024; see also subsection (b) effective until July 1, 2024 set out above.]
(b) The Secretary shall use data submitted on or before January 15 prior to the fiscal year that begins the following July 1 in order to calculate the amounts due each school district for any fiscal year for transportation aid due under section 4016 of this title.
(c) The Secretary shall use data corrections regarding local education budget amounts submitted on or before June 15 prior to the fiscal year that begins the following July 1, in order to calculate the education payments due under section 4011 of this title. However, the Secretary may use data submitted after June 15 and prior to July 15 due to unusual or exceptional circumstances as determined by the Secretary.
[Subsection (d) effective until July 1, 2024; see also subsection (d) effective July 1, 2024 set out below.]
(d) The Secretary shall not use data corrected due to an error submitted following the deadlines to recalculate the equalized pupil ratio under subdivision 4001(3) of this title. The Secretary shall not adjust average daily membership counts if an error or change is reported more than three fiscal years following the date that the original data was due.
[Subsection (d) effective July 1, 2024; see also subsection (d) effective until July 1, 2024 set out above.]
(d) The Secretary shall not use data corrected due to an error submitted following the deadlines to recalculate weighted long-term membership under section 4010 of this title. The Secretary shall not adjust average daily membership counts if an error or change is reported more than three fiscal years following the date that the original data was due.
(e) The State Board may adopt rules as necessary to implement the provisions of this section. (Added 1999, No. 108 (Adj. Sess.), § 5, eff. May 10, 2000; amended 2003, No. 36, § 18; 2003, No. 68, § 27, eff. June 18, 2003; 2003, No. 107 (Adj. Sess.), § 13; 2011, No. 58, § 7; 2013, No. 92 (Adj. Sess.), § 245, eff. Feb. 14, 2014; 2021, No. 127 (Adj. Sess.), § 27, eff. July 1, 2024.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 - Education › Chapter 133 - State Funding of Public Education › § 4031. Unorganized towns and gores

§ 4031. Unorganized towns and gores
(a) For a municipality that, as of January 1, 2004, is an unorganized town or gore, its education property tax spending adjustment under 32 V.S.A. § 5401(13) shall be one for purposes of determining the tax rate under 32 V.S.A. § 5402(a)(2).
(b) For purposes of a claim for property tax credit under 32 V.S.A. chapter 154 by a taxpayer in a municipality affected under this section, the applicable percentage shall not be multiplied by a spending adjustment under 32 V.S.A. § 5401(13). (Added 2003, No. 36, § 23; 2003, No. 68, § 17, eff. July 1, 2004; amended 2003, No. 76 (Adj. Sess.), § 21, eff. Feb. 17, 2004; 2015, No. 46, § 31.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements › Chapter 1 - University of Vermont and State Agricultural College › App § 1-1. Establishment as corporate body

§ 1-1. Establishment as corporate body
The University of Vermont and the Vermont Agricultural College, with such other corporations as may hereafter become united therewith, are hereby united and constituted a body corporate, by the name of the “University of Vermont and State Agricultural College,” for the purpose of carrying out the objects contemplated in their respective charters, and as such, shall be and remain a body corporate forever, and as such may hold and convey real and personal estate, have a common seal, and shall be recognized and utilized as an instrumentality of the State for providing public higher education, with all the rights and powers incident to corporations; and the General Assembly of the State of Vermont shall, from time to time, appropriate such sums as it deems necessary for the support and maintenance of the corporation.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements › Chapter 1 - University of Vermont and State Agricultural College › App § 1-3. Conferral of degrees; election of officers; governance

§ 1-3. Conferral of degrees; election of officers; governance
The Board of Trustees, a majority of whom may constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, may confer such honors and degrees as are usually given in colleges and universities and any other appropriate degrees, and may, from time to time, as occasion may require, elect a President, also a Secretary, Treasurer, Librarian, professors, instructors, and any other necessary officers, and prescribe their duties, salaries, and term of office, and may make all necessary bylaws and regulations for the government of themselves and others connected with the institution, not inconsistent with the provisions of this charter, and therein prescribe the terms of admission, rates of tuition, modes of study, and course of instruction, including any proper regulations for uniform, discipline, and military drill, as well as for experimental and practical instruction in the different branches of agricultural labor.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements › Chapter 1 - University of Vermont and State Agricultural College › App § 1-4. Control of lands and rents; rights and obligations

§ 1-4. Control of lands and rents; rights and obligations
Except as otherwise provided by Sec. 4 of No. 66 of the Acts of 1955, the Board of Trustees shall have the right to use, control, sell, or dispose of all the real estate and personal property now or hereafter belonging to the University of Vermont, belonging to the Vermont Agricultural College, and belonging to any other institution at the time of its union or thereafter, if such union shall be made with this corporation agreeably to this charter; subject, however, to the payment of any debts of any of the institutions existing at the time of such union, and subject to any trusts, duties, and obligations connected therewith, and shall be entitled to receive and use, for the purposes aforesaid, the rents and uses of any of the aforesaid lands, including the rents and uses of all such lands as have been heretofore reserved in any charter of land in this State for the use and benefit of any college, and may have the same rights in respect to the lands, and to any leases of the same, and to any rents arising therefrom, that the institutions respectively now have, and may maintain suits in their own name, or in the name of the University of Vermont and State Agricultural College, to recover the same; provided, that the rights of all parties shall remain, and the same defenses shall be had to such suits as if the same were brought in the name and as between the original parties; and the corporation hereby created shall, at all times, assume, discharge, and perform all the debts, duties, trusts, and obligations which the several institutions were subject to, at the time they became united in the corporation known as the University of Vermont and State Agricultural College, by virtue of this charter.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements › Chapter 1 - University of Vermont and State Agricultural College › App § 1-5. Curriculum to be maintained

§ 1-5. Curriculum to be maintained
There shall, at all times, be maintained, in the institution hereby created, such instruction, in the various branches of learning, as is contemplated in the several charters of each of the institutions hereby united; and more particularly including a four years’ course of studies, similar to such as are generally taught in other colleges, and not inferior to that recently taught in the University of Vermont, and in addition to that which is usually taught in other colleges, the instruction in this institution shall include such enlarged facilities, and extended scope and variety in the study of those branches which relate to military tactics, agriculture, and the mechanic arts, as shall render the whole instruction in conformity with said act of Congress, as well as with the several charters aforesaid.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements › Chapter 1 - University of Vermont and State Agricultural College › App § 1-6. Experimental farm

§ 1-6. Experimental farm
The Trustees may, in their discretion, obtain by gift, grant, or otherwise, a tract of land which, together with the land now owned by the University of Vermont, shall amount to at least 100 acres, to be used as an experimental farm, whereon they may make any desirable experiments in the breeding of stock, field culture, the analysis and adaptation of soils and horticultural and botanical gardening, or either of them, as they may deem proper, and also for the purpose of military encampment, target firing, drill and review; and the trustees may use, lease, or dispose of the same, as they may think proper, so as best to promote the objects of the institutions.
And in case the land shall be procured, as aforesaid, a sum not to exceed one-tenth of the money which has been received by the State Treasurer for the sale of land scrip, in pursuance of the act of Congress authorizing the same, shall be paid to the Board of Trustees for the purposes aforesaid; provided, that no agricultural labor shall be required of students, except by their voluntary agreement or consent.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements › Chapter 1 - University of Vermont and State Agricultural College › App § 1-7. Congressional fund; interest income

§ 1-7. Congressional fund; interest income
Whenever this corporation shall have been duly organized, there shall be appropriated and paid to its Treasurer annually, for the purpose herein mentioned, on the warrant of the Governor, the interest or the income which may be received from the fund created under and by virtue of the act of Congress.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements › Chapter 1 - University of Vermont and State Agricultural College › App § 1-8. Legislative reports; Board of Visitors

§ 1-8. Legislative reports; Board of Visitors
The corporation hereby created shall make annual reports to the Legislature of this State, of its condition, financially and otherwise, and make and distribute the reports required by the act of Congress, herein referred to, and the Legislature may annually appoint a Board of Visitors, who may annually examine the affairs of the corporation. The provisions of 2 V.S.A. § 20(d) (expiration of required reports) shall not apply to the report to be made under this section. (Amended 2015, No. 131 (Adj. Sess.), § 4.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements › Chapter 1 - University of Vermont and State Agricultural College › App § 1-9. Permanent location

§ 1-9. Permanent location
The permanent location of the institution hereby created, shall be in Burlington, in the State of Vermont, and the first meeting of the Board of Trustees shall be there held on November 15 next, at 7:00 P.M., or if the meeting shall not be held at that time, it shall be held at such other time and place as the Governor of this State may appoint, seasonable notice of the appointment having been first given to each of the Trustees or corporators of the University of Vermont and Vermont Agricultural College.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements › Chapter 1 - University of Vermont and State Agricultural College › App § 1-10. Middlebury College; Norwich University

§ 1-10. Middlebury College; Norwich University
The President and fellows of Middlebury College, and Norwich University, or either of them, may hereafter, with the assent and concurrence by vote of a majority of each of the nine Trustees elected, as aforesaid, and their successors, become incorporated and united with the corporation hereby created, by vote of their said corporations, at any meeting legally warned and holden, and by leaving for record, in the Office of the Secretary of State, a true and attested copy of such vote or votes, and of all the proceedings of the meeting or meetings, at which the votes aforesaid were passed, and causing the same to be recorded in the Office.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements › Chapter 1 - University of Vermont and State Agricultural College › App § 1-11. Vacation of charter

§ 1-11. Vacation of charter
If at any time, the corporation hereby created shall fail substantially to carry out the provisions and requirements of this charter, the Supreme Court of this State may, at any stated session thereof, having first given due notice to this corporation, annul and vacate this charter, and in such case, or in case the corporation shall otherwise be dissolved, the Supreme Court may, on application, order and decree that the income thereafter to be derived from the proceeds of the sale of said land scrip, in the hands of the State Treasurer as aforesaid, together with such amount as may have been paid over by the Treasurer for the purpose of an experimental farm, shall revert to the Vermont Agricultural College, and all the other property and effects which, at the time of the union, belonged to the other institution, shall revert to and be the property of the other institution or institutions which shall have been united and incorporated by, or in pursuance of this charter, and in case more than one such other institution shall have been thus united, such other property shall revert to them separately, such specific property to each, as the Court shall adjudge and decree, having reference in making such decree to what was originally owned or contributed by each; provided, that in respect to any property or funds hereafter acquired by the new corporation, by gift, grant, bequest, or otherwise, the same shall be awarded and distributed to each of the institutions hereby incorporated or hereafter united, in such manner as the Court shall deem just and equitable, having reference to the manner the same was acquired, and to any specific trusts, or expressed intention of any donors, made at the time the same was acquired. And for the purposes aforesaid, as well as for all other purposes, the several corporations, which shall have been united by virtue of this charter, shall be deemed and treated as having continued in life, and the several Trustees which shall have been elected by each at the time they were united, and their successors shall be deemed and treated to have been, since the time of their elections, the Trustees of their respective institutions, as well as Trustees of the united corporation, and, as such Trustees may receive the property and effects which may revert to their respective corporations by such decree of Court, and they and their successors, whom they may thereafter appoint, may continue and manage the affairs of their respective corporations thereafter, in the same manner as the Trustees of each might have done before they were united as aforesaid.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements › Chapter 1 - University of Vermont and State Agricultural College › App § 1-12. Charter in effect

§ 1-12. Charter in effect
This charter shall take effect, whenever the two corporations hereby united shall, at a meeting duly warned, vote to accept the same, and to surrender and relinquish to the corporation, hereby created, all the property belonging to them, whether real or personal, and all the rents, profits, and income therefrom arising, including said proceeds from the sale of the land scrip, for the purpose, and subject to all the rights, trusts, and conditions as in this charter provided; and it shall be the duty of each of the corporations to cause a copy of the record of such votes, duly certified by the secretaries of their respective corporations, to be left for record and duly recorded in the office of the Secretary of State; whereupon, by virtue of such votes, such property, rents, profits, and income shall become the property of the corporation hereby created, for the purposes and subject to the rights, trusts, and conditions aforesaid, and the property, and the property hereafter acquired by the corporation hereby created, shall be subject to all the conditions, immunities, and exemptions now pertaining to the property now held by the University of Vermont.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements › Chapter 1 - University of Vermont and State Agricultural College › App § 1-13. Repeal of inconsistent law

§ 1-13. Repeal of inconsistent law
All of an act entitled “An Act to Establish the Vermont Agricultural College,” approved November 22, 1864, which is inconsistent with the provisions of this act, is hereby repealed.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements › Chapter 1 - University of Vermont and State Agricultural College › App § 1-14. Vermont Agricultural College

§ 1-14. Vermont Agricultural College
The divisions of the Vermont Agricultural College set forth in section 4488 of Vermont Statutes, Revision of 1947, shall be continued as divisions of and in the name of the University of Vermont and State Agricultural College, and all references to Vermont Agricultural College in sections 4489 through 4493 shall be deemed to apply to the University of Vermont and State Agricultural College or the agricultural college of the University of Vermont and State Agricultural College as the context may require.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements › Chapter 1 - University of Vermont and State Agricultural College › App § 1-15a. Statutory purposes

§ 1-15a. Statutory purposes
The statutory purpose of the exemption for the University of Vermont in section 1-15 of this chapter is to allow institutions providing higher education to deploy more of their financial resources to their educational missions. (Added 2013, No. 200 (Adj. Sess.), § 10.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements › Chapter 2 - Barre Town School District › App § 2-1. Meetings and elections

§ 2-1. Meetings and elections
(a) The first Tuesday in March shall be the date for the annual election of School District officers and for voting upon all questions to be decided by Australian ballot. Polls shall be open no less than nine consecutive hours. The School Board may designate one or more polling places within the District for voting and may provide for the use of any mechanical or computer type devices for voting or counting votes, consistent with the requirements of law. However, the voters at any annual election may designate a different date, time, or place for subsequent annual elections.
(b)(1) Special School District meetings or elections:
(A) may be called by a majority of the School Board; or
(B) shall be called by the School District Clerk upon receipt by him or her of a petition signed by at least ten percent of the voters, specifying the business to be transacted at such meeting.
(2) The meeting shall be held within 60 days from the date the petition is filed with the Clerk.
(c) Budget preparation process:
(1) At such time as may be prescribed by the School Board, the School Superintendent shall submit a line itemized estimate of the income and expenditures required for the operation of the School District for the next ensuing fiscal year.
(2) The School Board, with a committee of not less than five voters appointed by them, shall review the proposed school budget publicly and prepare it for presentation to the voters at the annual School District election. Sufficient copies shall be available to the voters not less than ten days prior to the election, at the five public places required by subsection 2(a) of this chapter and the warning shall state the availability of the proposed budget.
(d) Budget adoption process: The budget proposal shall be submitted to the electorate at the annual election. If this proposal fails, the School Board shall warn another election at which a revised budget shall be submitted to the voters and decided by Australian ballot. If the School Board’s second or subsequent budget proposals fail, the Board shall continue to warn special elections and submit revised budget proposals to the voters until a budget is adopted by the voters by Australian ballot.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements › Chapter 2 - Barre Town School District › App § 2-2. Warnings

§ 2-2. Warnings
(a) Public notice of every annual or special School District meeting or election shall be given by a warning posted in at least five public places in the District at least 12 days prior to the meeting; and published two times, on the same day of the week for two consecutive weeks, in a newspaper having general circulation in the district. The first such publication shall be at least ten days prior to the date of the meeting.
(b) The warning shall:
(1) state the date, time, and place of the annual meeting as well as the date, time, and place of any informational hearing required to be held by virtue of the use of the Australian ballot system of voting;
(2) be signed by a majority of the School Board;
(3) specifically indicate by separate articles what business is to be transacted at the meeting;
(4) contain any article approved by the School Board;
(5) contain any article requested by petition signed by at least ten percent of the voters and filed with the School District Clerk at least 45 days prior to the day of the meeting; and
(6) state that copies of the School Board’s proposed budget shall be available as required by subsection 1(d) of this chapter.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements › Chapter 3 - Barton Academy and Graded School District › App § 3-1. Incorporation of district

§ 3-1. Incorporation of district
Such portions of the Town of Barton as lie within the present limits of School District Number One and the inhabitants thereof are hereby incorporated and constituted a school district of the Town of Barton, by the name of the Barton Academy and Graded School District; and the schoolhouse and all other property of School District Number One, of whatever character, shall become the general property of the Barton Academy and Graded School District; and all debts and liabilities of the District shall be assumed and paid by the Barton Academy and Graded School District, and the Barton Academy and Graded School District shall have all the powers and privileges, and shall be subject to all the duties and liabilities that are incident to school districts established under the Revised Laws of Vermont and the laws in addition thereto, or in amendment thereof.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements › Chapter 3 - Barton Academy and Graded School District › App § 3-2. Districts may merge

§ 3-2. Districts may merge
If any other school district or districts in the Town of Barton shall at any time, by their vote at a meeting duly warned for that purpose, signify their desire to become united with the Barton Academy and Graded School District, and if the Barton Academy and Graded School District, at a meeting duly warned for that purpose, shall vote to agree to such union, then the additional district, or districts, shall become and form a part of the Barton Academy and Graded School District; and such union of the districts may be made upon such terms in regard to the school property of each as may be mutually agreed upon by the districts. And by vote of the Town of Barton and consent by vote of the Academy and Graded School District, at any annual or special meeting of the Town and the district duly warned for that purpose, territory from adjoining districts may be added to the Graded School District by vote of the Town as aforesaid, and by the consent of two-thirds of the voters in the Graded School District present at any meeting legally warned for that purpose.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements › Chapter 3 - Barton Academy and Graded School District › App § 3-3. Transfer of property; assumption of debts; rent payments

§ 3-3. Transfer of property; assumption of debts; rent payments
All property of whatever character, belonging to the Barton Academy, an institution incorporated by the Legislature by act approved November 14, 1854, shall become the property of the Barton Academy and Graded School District whenever the Barton Academy shall vote, at a meeting legally called for that purpose, to accept the provisions of this act and all debts and liabilities of the Barton Academy shall be assumed and paid by the corporation hereby created. The Selectboard of the Town of Barton shall annually pay over the rents and profits arising from the grammar school lands in the town to the Trustees of the Barton Academy and Graded School District together with all sums arising from that source now in their hands and unappropriated.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements › Chapter 3 - Barton Academy and Graded School District › App § 3-4. Officers and trustees

§ 3-4. Officers and trustees
Instead of the prudential committee required by law to be elected, the Academy and Graded School District, at its first annual meeting, shall elect three Trustees as follows: one for the term of one year, one for the term of two years, and one for the term of three years; and at all subsequent annual meetings, vacancies caused by the expiration of the term of office of Trustees shall be filled by the election of Trustees for the term of three years each; provided, however, that when the voters thereof so vote at any annual meeting, wherein the warning contains an appropriate article relating thereto, two additional Trustees may be elected thereat for a term of one year each. Such vote so taken shall remain in effect until such time as the voters of the Barton Academy and Graded School District rescind the same by a majority vote of the legal voters present and voting at an annual or special meeting duly warned and including such purpose. All vacancies caused by death, resignation, removal from the District, or other cause shall be filled at an annual or special meeting, warned for the purpose, for the unexpired term of such Trustees only; provided, however, that the Trustees may fill one vacancy occurring on the Board of Trustees or in any other office, during the year, until an election is had at the next annual meeting, or a special meeting called for that purpose. The Trustees shall have all the powers and perform all the duties of a prudential committee and board of school directors, or either, and shall choose one of their members to be President, and may appoint a Secretary of the Board; each of whom shall hold office for the term of one year and until their successors are chosen and appointed. The other officers of the Barton Academy and Graded School District shall be the same as now or may hereafter be provided for all school districts in the State; shall be elected in the same manner and be subject to the same duties and liabilities as now or hereafter prescribed by law.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements › Chapter 3 - Barton Academy and Graded School District › App § 3-5. Annual meeting

§ 3-5. Annual meeting
The time of holding the annual meeting in the Graded School District shall be the same as now is or hereafter shall be fixed by law for all school districts in the State; and in accordance therewith the first meeting for the election of Trustees as hereinbefore provided shall be held on the last Tuesday of March, A. D. 1887.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements › Chapter 3 - Barton Academy and Graded School District › App § 3-6. Adoption of bylaws and rules

§ 3-6. Adoption of bylaws and rules
The Barton Academy and Graded School District may make such bylaws, rules, and regulations as it may deem expedient, not inconsistent with the laws of this State, and may provide for the establishment and maintenance of such number of schools, of such length, and of such grade or grades, and for teaching such branches therein as it may deem expedient; and may in its option give instruction in the studies usually taught in higher academic schools and which are requisite to prepare scholars for entering college. The Academy and Graded School shall not be required to teach gratuitously drawing, music, or the languages, other than English, but may at its option. All residents of the District between the ages of five and 20 years may attend the academy and graded school free of tuition for all branches except those mentioned herein, tuition to be charged upon the branches excepted at the option of the District.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements › Chapter 3 - Barton Academy and Graded School District › App § 3-7. Courses of study; acceptance of scholars

§ 3-7. Courses of study; acceptance of scholars
The Trustees may make such bylaws, rules, and regulations, for the gradation, instruction, and management of the Academy and Graded School, and for the care of the property of the District, as they may deem expedient not inconsistent with the laws of the State; they shall establish a course or courses of study in each of the schools and shall, in conjunction with the teachers of the schools, arrange and hold a public examination of all the schools at the close of each term thereof if thought best, and assign each scholar to the particular grade or department which each shall be found qualified to enter; shall assign each student to the proper grade upon admission to the school, and may change students from one grade to another during term time, whenever the interest of the students or the good of the school may seem to require it. The Trustees shall, unless otherwise directed by a vote of the District at any annual meeting thereof, allow scholars from other districts in the Town of Barton or from other towns to attend the Academy and Graded School with equal advantages of resident scholars, at rates of tuition corresponding as nearly as may be to the usual rates for the same instruction in schools of like character in the State. (Amended 2013, No. 92 (Adj. Sess.), § 302, eff. Feb. 14, 2014.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements › Chapter 3 - Barton Academy and Graded School District › App § 3-8. Acceptance of endowments and legacies

§ 3-8. Acceptance of endowments and legacies
The Academy and Graded School district is hereby empowered to receive any endowment fund or legacy in fee or in trust, that may be donated as an endowment toward the support or for the use of the Academy and Graded School, on such terms and conditions as may be prescribed by the donor or legator, not inconsistent with the laws of this State; and the Trustees of such Academy and Graded School shall be the custodians of such fund and of the income of the same, subject to instructions of the District in regard to the use of the fund or income, unless otherwise provided by the terms of the endowment, donation, or legacy.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements › Chapter 3 - Barton Academy and Graded School District › App § 3-9. Distribution of public moneys

§ 3-9. Distribution of public moneys
In the distribution of the public moneys, that portion which may be divided among the several school districts, irrespective of the number of scholars or the attendance at school, shall be so divided as to give the Barton Academy and Graded School District the share of the original district of which it is composed, and the Barton Academy and Graded School District shall have all the rights, privileges, and benefits now enjoyed by Barton Academy by School District Number One in Barton.