David Kelley: The ghettoizing of rural Vermont

Editor’s note: This commentary is by David F. Kelley, an attorney and a co-founder of Project Harmony (now PH International) who is a member of the Hazen Union School Board.
The levels of poverty in many small, rural communities are 50 percent higher than in more densely populated communities.(1) That equates to an increase in alcoholism, drug addiction, teen pregnancies, food insecurity and lack of transportation. A classroom in Lowell, where 80 percent of the students are on free and red