Negotiators for 270 unionized Bennington
area teachers and the Southwest Vermont Supervisory Union have been meeting late into the evening in a last-ditch effort to avert a teachers strike.
Commissioner
Armando Vilaseca says Vermont is a long shot to win $38 million in
federal school
improvement grants. His comments came as the state teacher’s union complained
that
its members were unfairly cut out of the grant application process.