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Eclipse day on April 8 will be treated like a snow day for thousands of Vermont public school students.
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On Tuesday, voters in nearly a third of school districts rejected their spending plans at the ballot box. Vermont Public’s education reporter Lola Duffort spoke with Mitch Wertlieb about how we got here — and how this will impact the conversation in Montpelier.
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School officials were bracing for a difficult Town Meeting Day – and they were right. A little over 30% of all school budgets went down Tuesday, according to unofficial results compiled by the Vermont Superintendents and School Boards' associations.
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The seven member towns of the Mountain Views School District will decide on Town Meeting Day whether to approve a $99 million bond to replace their combined middle and high school.
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School districts will now be able to postpone their budget votes past Town Meeting Day. The bill also repeals a tax break officials believe is partly to blame for an unprecedented rise in education spending.
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In hopes of reducing education spending, the Vermont House suspended its rules Wednesday to fast-track legislation that would amend the state’s education finance formula and enable school districts to postpone their budget votes until after Town Meeting Day.
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The bill points to electronic devices and social media as a major factor in the rise of mental health issues for young people.
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The Vermont secretary of state is guiding local clerks through potential last-minute ballot changes.
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With Town Meeting just one month away, Democratic lawmakers announced a plan to rewrite the state’s education tax laws to induce at least some districts to go back to the drawing board and cut spending. If this proposal passes, some school budget votes will be postponed until later in the spring.
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Facing an unprecedented increase in education spending, lawmakers are preparing to rewrite a portion of Vermont’s school funding formula within a matter of mere weeks — likely sending school boards, most of which have already adopted proposed budgets for next year, back to the drawing board.