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The Legislature went home Friday night a few minutes before midnight with no final agreement on H.454, transforming the state’s education financing and governance.
Governor Phil Scott, Speaker Jill Krowinski and Senate President Pro Tempore Phil Baruth today, Saturday May 31 issued the following joint statement:
“We always knew transforming our education system wouldn’t be easy, and it’s clear a little more time is needed to get the job done well.
“We remain committed to working together to find a path forward in the coming weeks that achieves better outcomes for our kids at a rate taxpayers can afford. We look forward to continuing the conversation with members to have a proposal in June that works for a bipartisan majority of both the House and the Senate.”
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If you always knew as in : ” “We always knew transforming our education system wouldn’t be easy, and it’s clear a little more time is needed to get the job done well. ” , why did you let it fester for such a long time putting masses of Vermonters in despair , precarity and depression instead of tackling that beast earlier ? Were you so sure Vermonters would be too placid to complain or had any venues to complain ? Were you all those years comforted by the fact that until the VDC and its brilliant analysts came on board the media scene in Vermont , people had no clue on what went on in Montpellier so were unable to make the appropriated judgments of failure of a massive system whose dynamics they did not completely understand ? Well now they do , and it is shameful that your legislative apathy had to be finally exposed . You knew the problem for years and you did nothing . Very telling how the loss of your supermajority made you suddenly aware of Vermonters ‘pain. Shame .
Simple—research education in earlier years which was very good with good results, education and financial and implement it.. But simplicity is not achieved now. Too much studying and a merry-go-around by the heads in government and interests. Nothing gets done that’s worth while today.
“…at a rate taxpayers can afford.” I take it that the presumption behind this is that the state is going to stay in the schooling business and find a way to fund these organizations…rather than get out of the business and fund learners (their families) directly? Hasn’t funding these organizations and all their stakeholders been a failure?
💯You’re singing my song, Vincent! Time to fire both the Republican and Democrats in the legislature regarding education. This requires a state constitutional amendment removing the regulation of education from the legislature. I am more than angry that I have contributed to the salaries of legislators, no matter their party affiliation, and nothing has been accomplished. Property tax relief now. Remove DEI and Gender Ideology immediately, and get back into the business of academics and career training. It ain’t rocket science.
BS, they just want to slow this train down so they can figure another way to come at it in the Fall! God, they’re so arrogant and think everyone else is as naive as their constituents in Burlington! I was born in Burlington when it was a great place to grow up, until Bernie brought in this arrogance from NYC. And now, here we are! I left 30 years ago after I had had enough of trying to deal with these obnoxious righteous narcissists. If they can’t force their agenda one way, they’ll just keep coming at you from another angle until they force it down your throat! At least finally the “silent majority” is speaking up! There could be a light at the end of the tunnel!
There was never a constitutional amendment to give the legislature the control of education. Read the declaration of rights in the Vermont constitution.
The writing on the wall they refuse to read or confess – yet, they will be paid for keeping the illusion going into June. A federal deficit of $-37 Trillion – some opine add another $20+ Trillion for what is owed, legally bound and contracted. Funding how and with what? Devalued fed debt notes or bundled debt bonds that are being swapped, propped, and dropped in a mad flurry of madness?
The public Trust robbed blind and Operation Tincup is coming for the rest held in retirement accounts (phantom digits anyway) and real assets. Bank on it, because they all ready have – we are leveraged beyond the point of any returns – best be prepared and brace for impact.
And still, not a word about the H.89 School Choice bill languishing in the House Education committee for several years now. I’ve commented on this legislation so many times that I’m sure most VDC readers are aware of School Choice. Many others have extolled the virtues of School Choice too. And still, not a peep from the powers that be.
“There was once a dream that was Rome. You could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish. It was so fragile. And I fear that it will not survive the winter.”
I suspect ‘School Choice’ is still an enigma for most people. They can’t envision it. They don’t know how it works. And, of course, that’s the nature of School Choice. It’s different for everyone. It’s the antithesis of the one-size-fits-all concoctions (i.e., ‘snake oil’) deliberated by our Governor and the legislature.
And, curiously, here we are in Vermont with the oldest and most successful School Choice program in the country – albeit available only to a select few based on their zip codes. None the less, Vermont already has a School Choice program. It’s well defined. It works. And it saves taxpayer money.
Let me repeat that again. VERMONT’S SCHOOL CHOICE PROGRAM SAVES TAXPAYER MONEY!
Ask yourselves why, then, are the Governor and the legislature trying to eliminate Vermont’s School Choice?
Because they aren’t interested in saving money. At least not saving ‘your’ money. They want your money for themselves, and to pay off the special interest groups enabling them. As Rob Roper explained: they are the VT NEA (teacher’s union), the Superintendent’s Association, the Principal’s Association, the School Administrators Association, the Vermont School Board’s Association, and the myriad other non-profit NGOs stalking their prey at the great public education monopoly watering hole.
Here’s the deal. The upcoming election cycles (in November and on Town Meeting Day) are our last chance to avoid this totalitarian takeover of our middle-class lives. Learn about Vermont’s existing School Choice governance. Vote for anyone who promises to not only save Vermont’s existing School Choice legislation, but who promises to make it accessible to all Vermont families.
You have to understand the grand plan, then everything makes “sense” and fits perfectly. They DO NOT WANT TO CHANGE COURSE, HERE IS WHY.
A democracy is a transition government on purpose.
66% vote to take money from 33% of the other people. (33% work for government and give 33% money to low income to vote with those getting the sweet jobs in government)
It doesn’t work for ever, note for reference, the Roman Empire. Course they enslaved 33% of the entire world, for the free labor and then “cancelled” rebellion the old school way, (not firings and lawsuits) they put them on I-89 on a cross to die and rot, while you commute to work, just as a pleasant reminder for what they do to liberty minded folks.
Ask our former principle who dared to suggest that perhaps looting, fires and theft was not a way to endear people to a cause she publicly supported. Dems are held captive by marxists, this is how they fly. Comply or die. Economically and politically speaking of course.
They are not even remotely interested in what we think, they all want things to remain the same or more lucrative.
Marxists are about power, money, destruction and lies, they have to lie to get people to do what they want.
There is kryptonite, which is very effective.
Truth, Love, Unity, Joy, Peace……..and they really despise the most wonderful leader the world has ever experienced.
Quando Omni flunkus, moritati!
Now, while you are being screwed by the education mafia, have you noticed that weather warfare is destroying the garden that you planted. Excuse me, I have to put another stick of wood into my wood stove on June first and will try to plant my garden next week.
A constitutional amendment in Vermont prohibiting the state and federal government from getting involved with education would go a long ways in lowering cost and promoting academic success. Don’t believe me? Just look at the state and federal governments efforts at “reform” which is inextrably linked to the election cycle.