One-year contracts won’t help Vermont’s schools

Dear Editor,This time of year, I trade in the cup of coffee for a mug of warm apple cider. The leaves are starting to turn, mornings are colder, and schools are settling into familiar late September rhythms.It is a beautiful time to be a school leader in Vermont. It is also a strange one.Vermont is embarking on the widest transformation of its education system in decades. And now we face a new wrinkle: School boards have been instructed by the Agency of Education to hire superintendents on one-