The claims regarding the vermont woodworking school come amid an ongoing fbi investigation into allegations of bank fraud during mrs.
Vermont woodworking school scandal. Sanders stated in a 2010 loan application she had secured 2 6 million in promised donations to pay for a land purchase which helped secure a 6 5 million loan from the people s united bank. Sanders s daughter carina driscoll. Bernie sanders is huge on college campuses or yuuuuge as he likes to say but the small private school in vermont that his wife jane ran for seven years announced yesterday that it will. The vermont woodworking school s reputation of providing an excellent education in fine woodworking and furniture making has grown among accomplished furniture makers across the country enabling a number of motivated graduates to secure jobs at shops such as vermont farm table shackleton thomas and wall goldfinger.
The college eventually paid the school more than 500 000 for classes at its fairfax vt. Later other news outlets also. Carol moore the final president at. The vermont woodworking school is a woodworking and furniture making school located in a historic barn turned modern woodworking facility.
But there were controversies as when the college embarked on a partnership to provide students for a fledgling woodworking school founded in part by ms. By that time the school had paid huge sums to the vermont woodworking school which is run by driscoll. Due to the covid 19 outbreak we have suspended all long term and community workshops at the vermont woodworking school. The bad blood centers on the relationship the college forged with the vermont woodworking school co founded and run by sanders daughter carina driscoll.
Vws offers short classes and workshops as well as a semester based immersion program that steeps students in craftsmanship and design while they complete challenging design projects of their own creation. During her time there the college paid nearly 500 000 to the vermont woodworking school run by driscoll for classes according to the free beacon.