CALAIS, Vt. (WCAX) - Two central Vermont elementary schools are once again facing closure as the Washington Central Unified Union School District takes on education restructuring challenges head-on.

It’s storytime at Calais Elementary School, a school whose future is in doubt.

“We want to have equitable, consistent, and sustainable instruction for all of our students, and it’s hard in the reality that we are now also as a state,” said Washington Central Unified Union School District Board Chair Flor Diaz-Smith.

The board will vote on Wednesday whether to put Calais Elementary School and the Doty Memorial School in Worcester on the chopping block.

Under the board’s budget draft, the district would consolidate from five elementary schools to three in hopes of easing the burden on taxpaye

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