Vermont provides funding for private education but only to independent schools in instances where there are no public schools in the district.

Approved and recognized nonpublic schools must provide a minimum course of study in the following fields: basic communication, including reading, writing, and the use of numbers; citizenship, history, and government in Vermont and the United States; physical education and comprehensive health education; English, American, and other literature; the natural sciences; and the fine arts.

Teachers at approved schools need to hold “a minimum of a bachelor’s degree in their field of instruction or substantially equivalent time in training and experience in their field of instruction.”

In Vermont, school lunch requirements, including funding for schools offering the National School Lunch Program, are managed by the Agency of Education.

Students must attend school a minimum of 175 days.

Schools must report their approval/recognition status to parents each year and must provide names and addresses of enrolled students to the secretary of education annually.

Students must be immunized or provide documentation of a medical or religious exemption. Schools must hold monthly fire drills.

Each legal pupil entitled or required to attend an elementary or a secondary school may be furnished with total or partial transportation to school if the board of school directors decides it is reasonable and necessary to enable him or her to attend school.

Schools receiving public funding must administer state standardized tests.