Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. MONTPELIER â 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 â but raising education property taxes in communities that benefited from the current formula â and thereâs bound to be tension. That was the case over the past few days, as the Vermont House of Representativesâ Education and Ways & Means Committees held meetings, jointly and s...