A school board is scheduled
to vote on whether to close a public elementary school in North
Bennington, which would be re-opened as an independent school.
The state Board of Education
is expected to take action Tuesday/today that will pave the way for an
independent school in North
Bennington — and the
closure of the district’s public elementary school.
Voters in North Bennington went to the polls for a third time yesterday Thursday. By a 28 vote margin they authorized their school board to close their
public grade school.
Days after North Bennington voters agreed to close their public school and establish an independent school in its place, a
petition is circulating to recall the vote.
The bid to close the North
Bennington Graded School won by a much smaller margin than last March, when
voters agreed to close the school by July of this year.
North Bennington residents voted last March to close their public elementary school. They hoped an
application for a new independent school would be approved by the state Board of Education
at its May meeting. But instead the application was tabled.