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Editor s note: Leland & Gray Union High School senior Emma Stover, the subject of the accompanying article, wrote this essay as a start to prompt her thinking about her story.
My name is Emma Stover and I am a senior at Leland & Gray Union High School in Townshend, Vermont. When I was 7 years old I witnessed my mother using drugs for the first time, an image that will never leave my head. My father left my mother and I at a young age, forcing us to survive and live off of what we had and the people around us. My mother financially depended on my grandparents for support, making family tensions very prominent throughout my childhood years. I was introduced to people and places that no child should ever have to witness, making me see the difficulties and hardships of life at a very young age. Inevitably I was removed from the household my mother resided in, resulting in me living with my grandparents in Jamaica, Vermont. During
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MONTPELIER â George W. Bush was president of the United States the last time state of Vermont offered a financial assistance program to its public K-12 school districts for building construction projects.
That was two governors ago, in 2007, when the Vermont Legislature suspended state aid for school construction to allow then-Gov. Jim Douglasâs administration to study and recommend âa sustainable plan for state aid for school construction.â
On Thursday, the House Education Committee continued efforts to restore the state school building assistance program. The panel heard testimony on a proposal for a statewide study of school building needs, and an accompanying study of how the state would pay for it.
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