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Burlington Police Investigating Anonymous Instagram Threat Against High School
An anonymous threat was made on social media against Burlington High School, police said Tuesday night. Administrators were informed earlier in the day of an anonymous Instagram account on which someone posted a generalized desire to cause harm at the high school prior to winter break, Burlington police said. While investigators do not believe there is an active danger to…
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Burlington High Shifts to Remote Learning After Rise in COVID Cases
In an email to families and staff Sunday, Superintendent Eric Conti said the district will switch to remote learning through April 12, citing 10 cases of COVID-19 in the past week. At least 130 Burlington High School students are now in quarantine.
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COVID Cases Force Burlington High Back Online
In an email to families and staff Sunday, Superintendent Eric Conti the district will switch to remote learning through April 12, citing 10 cases of COVID-19 in the past week. At least 130 Burlington High School students are now in quarantine.
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Burlington High School Goes Remote Due to COVID Outbreak
A high school in Burlington, Massachusetts is moving class online Monday as officials deal with an outbreak of coronavirus cases, according to the district’s superintendent. In an email to families and staff Sunday, Superintendent Eric Conti said the district will switch to remote learning through April 12, citing 10 cases of COVID-19 in the past week. At least 130 Burlington…
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Burlington High School Switches to Remote Learning Due to Increase in COVID-19 Cases
Burlington High School in Massachusetts is pivoting to remote learning beginning Monday due to a spike in coronavirus cases, Superintendent Dr. Eric Conti confirmed Sunday. In an email sent to the families and staff, Conti said the switch to remote learning will last through the week of April 12. Conti cited 10 cases of COVID-19 in the past week impacting…
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This Vt. High School Graduation Will Take Three Days
High schools across the country are honoring the Class of 2020 in creative ways while traditional graduation ceremonies have been called off due to COVID-19. In Burlington, Vermont, the high school graduation will take three days. Monday was graduation day. Tuesday will be, too. And so will Wednesday. The city’s high school went with a three-day ceremony because it determined…
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Vt. High School Graduation Stretches Over 3 Days
High schools across Vermont have come up with their own ways to honor graduates amid the coronavirus pandemic. In Burlington, a non-traditional ceremony stretched over three days.
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Outspoken Vt. Teen Athletes Included in National Profiles of Soccer Stars
Several members of the Burlington High School Seahorses received yellow cards during a game in October when they took off their official team jerseys to reveal slogans calling for women’s pay equity.
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Vt. Girls Soccer Team Who Pushed for Equal Pay Still in Spotlight
A Vermont girls soccer team is featured prominently in Sports Illustrated’s Sportsperson of the Year profile of U.S. star Megan Rapinoe after both raised awareness inequalities in the game.
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Vermont Girls' Soccer Team Penalized for Equal Pay Demonstration
Players from a girls’ high school varsity soccer team in Vermont received with yellow cards after taking their jerseys off mid-game to display shirts stating,”#Equal Pay”. League rules bar the girls from wearing uniforms with slogans on them in official games, but they’re fine for practices and off-field activities, the team’s coach noted before the Friday game.
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Vt. High School Athletes Score With Equal Pay Push
A girls’ high school varsity soccer team in Vermont is taking a page out of the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team’s playbook, by mixing sports and social activism. “We want to show that we’re all going to stand behind this issue and we’re all going to fight for it together,” Burlington High School freshman Lydia Sheeser said of her team’s...
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High School Soccer Team Pushes for Pay Equity
Young Vermont athletes are taking inspiration from the U.S. Women’s National Team in their push for equal pay.
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Vt. School Unveils Gender-Neutral Locker Room
A newly-converted space inside the high school in Vermont’s largest city is drawing praise from transgender and gender-nonconforming students, as well as from advocates for LGBT youth. “It’s so awesome that we finally have one,” Burlington High School freshman Ezra Totten said of the school’s new gender-neutral locker room.
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Vermont Students Join National School Walkout
Burlington High School students took part in the day of activism