School districts assigned to new merger discussion groups
Harwood Union High School in Duxbury in August 2025. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerSchool districts across the state have been assigned to new groups to consider mergers after 13 districts requested changes ahead of groups’ first meetings, set to happen in the coming weeks. Those requests, school board leaders say, are representative of districts exercising local control early in a process they say is still muddied by unknowns. The new assignments announced Friday group th