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A bill intended to address years of inequitable funding in Vermontâs K-12 public schools has passed the House of Representatives.
The bill, S. 13, establishes a task force to study how to implement new per-pupil weighting factors into the stateâs education funding formula. The bill passed unanimously on second reading, 127-0, and the House suspended its rules to send it to the Senate for concurrence right away.
Since the Brigham court decision in the 1990s threw out Vermontâs education funding system as unconstitutional, the state has used weighting factors as part of a formula intended to provide equitable opportunity to students regardless of geography.