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Senate education committee visits Mountain View district; leaders point to rising literacy and strong extracurricular engagement
Summary
At a Nov. 18 visit to Woodstock Union High School, Mountain View Supervisory Union leaders told the Senate Education Committee they have driven literacy gains, expanded pre-K and after‑school participation, and use a district-wide curriculum and data cycle to align instruction across seven towns.
WOODSTOCK, Vt. — The Vermont Senate Education Committee, led by Chair Seth Bongarts, visited the Mountain View Supervisory Union in Woodstock on Nov. 18 to hear school leaders, teachers and students describe the district’s work on literacy, early childhood and student engagement.
District Superintendent Sherry Souza told the committee Mountain View serves about 1,000 students across five elementary schools, a combined middle and high school and more than 250 faculty and staff. “We are building a strong foundation,” Souza said, noting the district runs full‑time public pre‑K classrooms in Barnard, Killington, Reading and Woodstock with “over a 100 pre‑K students.”
Dr. Julie Brown, the district’s literacy facilitator, said the district set an ambitious literacy aim — “90…
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