Schools with low student-staff ratios feel pressure to cut

Gloria Durkee, a special education assistant, looks over the work of fourth-grader Grady Putnam, 10, at Westshire Elementary School in West Fairlee. Photo by Charles Hatcher/Valley News(This story by EmmaJean Holley was published by the Valley News on Nov. 27, 2017.)
Barbara Griffin is an elementary school reading teacher without an elementary school — or at least, not a regular one. Like many school staff in rural Vermont, Griffin splits her time between locations, in her case Westshire E