Mount Mansfield Modified Union School District (MMUUSD), formerly the Mount Mansfield Union School District #17, is a school district headquartered in
Jericho, Vermont
Jericho is a town in Chittenden County, Vermont, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 5,104. The town was named after the ancient city of Jericho.
History
Ira Allen and Remember Baker began surveying the town of Jericho in ...
.
It is the district farthest east in
Chittenden County, Vermont
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. There are approximately 2600 students enrolled in the district.
Each town in the district has its own elementary school, which serves K-4th grade.
Students from Huntington,
Bolton
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and
Richmond
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attend Camels Hump Middle School. Those from
Jericho
Jericho ( ; ar, أريØا ; he, יְרִיחוֹ ) is a Palestinian city in the West Bank. It is located in the Jordan Valley, with the Jordan River to the east and Jerusalem to the west. It is the administrative seat of the Jericho Gove ...
Mount Mansfield Union High School
Mount Mansfield Union High School (MMU) is a high school located near the center of Jericho, Vermont.umbrella organization
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. In a span of ten years the residents of the predecessor districts voted on whether to merge their school districts on five occasions. The vote that day favored consolidation. The district was established effective November 4, 2014. The merged district began operations the following year.
In 2011 there was a vote among the towns on whether to merge that did not pass. Another such vote was scheduled in 2014. The district formed with the voluntary merger of the Bolton, Jericho, Richmond, and Underhill school districts. When MMUUSD formed, Huntington residents already had representation as the community sent its secondary students there, but Huntington continued to have its own elementary school district.
Residents of Huntington resisted merging for a longer time, with four unsuccessful votes on merging into MMUUSD. At one point the state of Vermont passed Act 46 that obligated school districts to merge. The Huntington School District sued the state government to try to stop the merger. In 2018 the Huntington district filed its third lawsuit against mergers. On June 6, 2019, the vote to merge Huntington into Mount Mansfield succeeded on a 450-191 basis; the Chittenden East Supervisory Union dissolved as a result.
Vermont Legislature
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