EWSD News
News for EWSD Families and Community Members
June 9, 2020
In This Issue ...
District Updates
EWSD FY'21 Budget Votes Pass!
EWSD Statement on Ensuring Equity
Paintings 4 Change
Over 100,000 Meals Served!
Meet the New EWSD Principals - Video Q&A
COVID-19 Tips from the VT Department of Health
EWSD COVID-19 Information
EWSD Essential Heroes
EWSD In The News
Happenings
Upcoming Events
EWSD Board Meeting
EWSD Job Opportunities
Important Links
EWSD Social Media
District Updates
EWSD FY'21 Budget Votes Pass!
Thank you to all the Essex Westford School District community members who came out to vote!
Voting results:
- The EWSD FY’21 Budget Passed: 3,124-1,844
- The CTE FY’21 Budget Passed: 3,843-1,127
- Article IV (May EWSD borrow) Passed: 3,624-1,294
- Article VII (Ok to assign surplus) Passed: 4,268-653
Also, Erin Kennedy Knox and Scott Brown (Essex Junction), Brendan Kinney (Essex Town), and Andre Roy (Westford) were elected to the EWSD Board.
Last year, a total of 934 votes were recorded for the proposed FY'20 EWSD budget (which passed, 719-215).
EWSD Statement on Ensuring Equity
The EWSD is dedicated to ensuring equity for all students and is striving toward being an anti-racist organization. The full leadership team across our District supports the concepts of ridding our system of inequities associated with race, gender, language diversity, socioeconomic status, and other forms of marginalization.
Read the full statement from the District online.
Paintings 4 Change
An EHS student came up with an idea to sell local student art to benefit Black Lives Matter. The idea around the project is that if someone would like to purchase a print, they would have to send a message with their donation receipt to BLM, and then their print would be mailed.
Currently, it is made up of mostly student artists from EHS, but students from other local schools have reached out and would like to help. Learn more by visiting the Facebook page that they have set up (or on Instagram @Paintings4Change)!
Over 100,000 Meals Served!
Don't forget that the EWSD is still providing free breakfast and lunch to all children ages 18 and under, no application or prior approval is needed. Please spread the word to anyone you know. Since March 19, the EWSD has provided over 100,000 meals!!!
- Menu - Updated June 1
- Pickup for packaged breakfast and lunch will be distributed - via a drive-through system - at the following locations and times.
- Albert D. Lawton School, 8:00 a.m. until 10:00 a.m.
- Essex Elementary School, 9:00 a.m. until 11:00 a.m.
- Westford School, 10:00 a.m. until 12:00 p.m.
- All meal pick up sites, drive-thru locations, and meal deliveries will be practicing the recommended 6-foot social distancing. Please help us all stay healthy by keeping this distance from others.
If you have any questions or concerns, please email Scott Fay (sfay@ewsd.org) or call the Child Nutrition Office at 802-857-7333.
Meet the New EWSD Principals - Video Q&A
- EES - Ashley Gray Q&A
- Fleming - Matt Roy Q&A
- EHS - Tamara Parks and Don Van Nostrand Q&A
COVID-19 Tips from the VT Department of Health
Adam Ziter
Kiley Boerger
Erik Short/Sam Foster
EWSD In the News
- Faces of Essex: Luann and Kevin Donley - Local dentistry, EWSD volunteers (Essex Reporter)
- Essex High’s Desorcie named Vermont Jump$tart’s 2020 Teacher of the Year (Essex Reporter)
- Henry Wu named one of Vermont’s 2020 U.S. Presidential Scholars (Essex Reporter)
- VSAC awards $1.4 million in scholarships to high school seniors (Vermont Business Magazine)
- Look inside the proposed EWSD budget; public info meeting set for Tuesday night (Essex Reporter)
- Essex High’s Lu places fourth in statewide math competition (Essex Reporter)
- Essex High’s GLP chats with Ben & Jerry’s co-founder on business, leadership (Essex Reporter)
- EWSD, EJRP help fight heat with ice cream sandwich giveaway (Essex Reporter)
- Faces of Essex: Stephanie Walp - EWSD (Essex Reporter)
- Lawn signs, drive-in graduations: How Vermont schools are sending off their high school seniors (Burlington Free Press)
- Class Of 2020 Senior Spotlight! - Henry Wu (Vermont Youth Orchestra)
- Education may never be the same — remote learning inspires new ways to deliver instruction (Burlington Free Press)
- Burlington event provides free seedlings (WCAX)
- Senior portraits take over one of five corners (Essex Reporter)
- Absentee ballots result in high turnout for Essex Westford School District budget vote (MyNBC5)
- Village, school board budgets pass as Kennedy Knox, Brown win only contested seats (Essex Reporter)
- Recent voting-by-mail shatters previous turnout numbers (Essex Reporter)
- Transcript For 'Racism—And Anti-Racism—In Vermont' (VPR)
- Faces of Essex: Chrissy Hultgren - Hiawatha Elementary (Essex Reporter)
- Fair enough: Essex High to hold drive-in graduation at Expo (Essex Reporter)
Happenings
Car Parade
EHS Artwork
K-4 Distance Learning
Part of Your World
Preschool Graduation
Summer Books
Upcoming Events
EWSD Board Meeting (Remote)
Board members will join the meeting remotely, as RETN will broadcast on Facebook Live and it can be accessed through Zoom:
Zoom Link: https://ewsd.zoom.us/j/94107260890
Meeting ID: 941 0726 0890
Password: 718672
Tuesday, Jun 9, 2020, 06:30 PM
Zoom/Facebook Live
EWSD Job Opportunities
Important Links
EWSD Social Media
About Us
Email: bdickie@ewsd.org
Website: www.ewsd.org
Location: 58 Founders Road, Essex Junction, VT, USA
Phone: 802-878-8168
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/essexwestford/
Twitter: @EssexWestford