Vermont PLP mandate
Vermont's Personalized Learning Plan: A Student-Centered Pathway to College and Career Readiness
Required under 16 V.S.A. § 941 and State Board Rule Series 2000 for grades 7–12; developed collaboratively with students, schools, and families.
In Brief
Vermont's Personalized Learning Plan (PLP) grew out of Act 77 (the Flexible Pathways Initiative) in 2013 and represents a fundamental shift toward student-centered, self-directed learning. Codified in 16 V.S.A. § 941 and implemented through the State Board of Education's Quality Standards (Rule Series 2000, § 2120.4), the PLP is a written document that each student develops—together with a school representative and, if a minor, their parent or legal guardian—that describes the scope and rigor of learning opportunities and support services necessary for college and career readiness before graduation. This collaborative process ensures that every student's voice, family context, and individual strengths shape their pathway.
The PLP must be reviewed at least annually to ensure it remains responsive to the student's evolving goals and circumstances. Vermont's emphasis is not on a single assessment or score but on a holistic understanding of what each learner needs to thrive after high school. The plan might incorporate academic coursework, project-based learning, internships, service learning, online courses, or dual-enrollment opportunities—whatever best serves the individual student's college and career readiness.
What PLP actually requires
Checked against 16 V.S.A. § 941; Vermont State Board of Education Rule Series 2000 (Education Quality Standards), § 2120.4, not against a category description.
Recommended assessment battery for Vermont districts
Sequenced across the 7th-12th grade arc.
Who Vermont districts already use for PLP
Real tools and workarounds we found in use for PLP compliance — not a hypothetical shortlist.
Vermont's PLP Requirements: What the Law Mandates
Related on JobCannon
This page is one of 38 verified career-plan mandate pages JobCannon tracks, each citing a primary statute or regulation — for the Vermont PLP mandate that source is 16 V.S.A. § 941; Vermont Education Quality Standards, Rule Series 2000. For the broader rollout picture, see career assessments for school districts, or the JobCannon for Business hub.
District-tier pricing
Scale is $199/mo and covers 200 people per billing period — one person, however many assessments they take, and a class-code arrival counts the same as an emailed invite. Growth is $999/mo for 1,000. Above that, or where enrolment should not be metered at all, it is an Enterprise conversation rather than a larger self-serve plan. A district-sized enrolment runs out of the monthly tiers quickly — the Education Licence below prices your whole enrolment per student for the year, assessments uncapped, and adds the full career and skills corpus.
Free
For micro-teams trying the platform
- ▸10 candidate invites/month (resets the 1st of each month)
- ▸All 164+ assessments
- ▸Premium result for every candidate you invite
- ▸Every candidate profile fully open — nothing blurred
- ▸Share link via email or Slack
- ▸Free trial of the coordinator dashboard
Starter
For solo coaches and small HR
- ▸30 candidates/mo included; extra candidates are $2 each
- ▸All 164+ assessments
- ▸Premium report (archetype + blind spots + work-style brief)
- ▸Coach notes per candidate
- ▸PDF export (client-ready)
- ▸Session prep recommendations
- ▸Candidate progress tracking
Team
For startups, teams and HR
- ▸80 candidates/mo included; extra candidates are $2 each
- ▸Everything in Starter
- ▸Team DNA dashboard
- ▸Compatibility matrix
- ▸Conflict-pattern detection
- ▸Compare 2-3 team members
- ▸Manager prep briefings
- ▸Shared admin access (2 seats)
Scale
For agencies, L&D and scale-ups
- ▸200 candidates/mo included; extra candidates are $2 each
- ▸Everything in Team
- ▸Integrity + social-desirability scales (fake-good detection)
- ▸White-label PDFs (your logo)
- ▸Full assessment API (start, score, retrieve results)
- ▸Custom assessment builder (beta)
- ▸Admin seats not billed per seat
- ▸Priority email support
Growth
For high-volume screening without a contract
- ▸1,000 candidates/mo included; extra candidates are $2 each
- ▸Everything in Scale
- ▸Invoice / PO billing, not just card
- ▸Named support contact with a response-time target
- ▸Annual billing option
Enterprise
For 200+ person companies
- ▸Candidate volume set in your contract, all assessments
- ▸Everything in Scale
- ▸SLA (99.9% uptime)
- ▸Dedicated Customer Success
- ▸Custom integrations built against your tenant (Greenhouse and Ashby ship today)
- ▸Annual billing, invoice payments
Self-serve checkout via Stripe — major cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Link. Cancel anytime; 14-day money-back on every paid plan. Enterprise via the contact form below.
Education Licence — priced per student, per year
One rate per enrolled student for the academic year, sized for Vermont district or school-level PLP rollouts. Assessments uncapped, career and skills corpus included — multiply your own enrolment by the band and you have the most this can cost before you talk to us.
$1.25 down to $0.80 per student, per year — assessments uncapped
That multiplication is a ceiling, not a bill. If our self-serve plans would cover the same number of students for less, you are quoted the lower figure — we do not sell an institution its own students back at a higher price than anyone can buy them for on the pricing page.
District
A large school, multi-school district or trust
per year
- ▸Every assessment in the catalogue, retakes included, no per-assessment charge
- ▸Cohort dashboard with cross-school and year-over-year comparison
- ▸Full career and skills corpus — 2,521 careers, 1,863 skills
- ▸Read the corpus live over the API, or take a versioned snapshot
- ▸Named contact, quote letter formatted for procurement
College or university
A university, college or college group
per year
- ▸Every assessment in the catalogue, retakes included, no per-assessment charge
- ▸Cohort dashboard with cross-school and year-over-year comparison
- ▸Full career and skills corpus — 2,521 careers, 1,863 skills
- ▸Read the corpus live over the API, or take a versioned snapshot
- ▸Named contact, quote letter formatted for procurement
State system
A statewide or national programme
per year
- ▸Every assessment in the catalogue, retakes included, no per-assessment charge
- ▸Cohort dashboard with cross-school and year-over-year comparison
- ▸Full career and skills corpus — 2,521 careers, 1,863 skills
- ▸Read the corpus live over the API, or take a versioned snapshot
- ▸Named contact, quote letter formatted for procurement
£350 per school, per year — a flat whole-school licence rather than a per-student rate, because that is the unit UK schools budget in. Same uncapped assessments and same corpus. Excludes VAT.
The ladder starts at 1,301 students. Below that a self-serve plan already covers your whole roll for less than a licence would, so that is what we will point you at — and UK schools have the flat whole-school licence above at any size. Bands are by enrolment, and the rate applies to your whole roll rather than to a seat count you have to predict. Invoiced annually against a purchase order; no per-assessment charge and nothing to top up mid-year. Assessing an institution's enrolled students is covered by the Education Licence, not by a hiring plan. What is in the corpus.
Request a Vermont district pilot
Tell us how many students you expect to assess in a term and what your review process asks for. If something on your requirements list is not in the product, we will say so in the reply rather than in the pilot.
No. Vermont requires a Personalized Learning Plan developed collaboratively by students, schools, and families; no specific assessment tool is mandated by statute.
JobCannon offers a Career Match assessment and Skills Audit that students can complete (about 2–15 minutes depending on the test) and a Printable Career Guide to support self-reflection. These can inform the career-readiness conversation in a PLP but do not replace the student–school–family collaboration, annual review, or broader learning-opportunity planning that Vermont's law requires.
Act 77 (2013) expanded Vermont's K–12 system to allow students to pursue diverse, personalized pathways to college and career readiness—not just traditional classroom courses. The Personalized Learning Plan operationalizes this vision.
The PLP is co-created by the student, a school representative, and the parent/guardian (if the student is a minor). Vermont law requires it to be reviewed at least annually.
Vermont's framework is intentionally broad: academic courses, internships, service learning, project-based learning, online courses, dual enrollment, mentoring, and apprenticeships can all feature in a PLP, tailored to the student's goals and context.
Vermont's PLP statute does not mandate a specific assessment tool, rubric, or digital platform. Schools design and manage the PLP process locally, provided they ensure student voice, family involvement, and annual review.