Early Tuesday morning as the sun rises, all seems quiet at the regional high school. Yellow school buses lounge in the parking lot, and a hint of fall drifts by on the ripple of a breeze.

Tyrene (Ty) Johnston, a veteran Montessori educator who just moved to the Island full-time, will teach in the mornings at Vineyard Montessori, a private school in Vineyard Haven.

A sergeant with the Oak Bluffs police department will take on a new role this year as the school resource officer at Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School.

The school committee is considering the possibility of ending the district’s tradition of running its own school bus system.

In one of several leadership changes this summer, Martha's Vineyard Regional High School has promoted Elliott Bennett, a science teacher at the school since 2000, to an assistant principal role.

A new garden on Chilmark School grounds will honor a late Island educator and leader in the public schools.

The small native plant garden being built behind the school will honor the memory of Susan Parker, who died in June.