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MARLBORO — As the School Board prepares to budget and potentially hold a bond vote to tackle renovations at Marlboro Elementary, public feedback is being sought on the 7th and

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   MONTPELIER — The House version of a bill establishing a task force to implement new per-pupil weighting factors to be used in the state’s public school funding formula passed out of the Education Committee on Thursday morning. The bill, S. 13, now heads to the Ways & Means Committee for review. It’s likely to come to the floor next week, as the legislature is seeking to adjourn by May 22. A side-by-side comparison produced by legislative counsel for the Education Committee shows how the House proposes to amend the Senate ver...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   MONTPELIER — All by themselves, education funding and taxation in Vermont are politically challenging topics at the local level and in Montpelier. Put them together, and then add a mechanism of addressing chronic underfunding of some schools — but raising education property taxes in communities that benefited from the current formula — and there’s bound to be tension. That was the case over the past few days, as the Vermont House of Representatives’ Education and Ways & Means Committees held meetings, jointly and s...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   Our Vermont legislators recently commissioned a state-of-the-art study to investigate how best to apportion funds to schools equitably. Unfortunately for the students of Vermont, it detailed serious inequities in school funding. What this study unveiled was an outdated distribution of funds to its districts. For 20 years the tax structure in Vermont has skewed away from fully supporting our most vulnerable students and families. Nearly 60 percent of Vermont schools have had their equalized students undercounted, some by more than 20 percen...

MONTPELIER — The state Senate Education Committee hopes to have its version of changing the way Vermont’s K-12 schools count students for budgeting purposes ready by Friday for a committee