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Chair chastises Legislature
Vermont’s Commission on the Future of Public Education can’t deliver school spending cost containment recommendations according to the legislature’s timeline, the 802 Ed newsletter reports.
The Chester Telegraph reports that the Commission on the Future of Public Education is not expected to deliver on recommending cost containment strategies, with the committee’s chair stating a desire to “publicly reprimand the timeline we were given.”
H887 requires that “a written report containing its preliminary findings and recommendations, including short-term cost containment considerations for the 2025 legislative session, on or before December 15, 2024.”
“I’m going to publicly reprimand the timeline we were given and say that was an impossible timeline,” Commission Chair and House Ways & Means Committee Chair Emilie Kornheiser (D-Brattleboro), who told the panel October 14 she would attend the Oct. 21 meeting of the full commission and report on the results of the group’s brainstorming as well as the information gathered so far. “We’re meeting every two weeks, we’re committed to it,” said Kornheiser saying the process will take time.
Other Vermont education stories collected by 802 Ed include:
Shushing The School Newspaper. VT Digger follows the story of The Guidon at Norwich University, which has not been publishing since the summer under allegations of administrative censorship.
Appeal for Interim Secretary Lawsuit. VT Digger keeps us up to date on allegations that the governor acted improperly when making an appointment that the Senate had already voted against.
The Story of One-Room Schoolhouses. Valley News goes deep into the history of teaching many grades all together in Vermont and New Hampshire, as well as their eventual decline: “It was the automobile and the school bus that hastened the demise of the one-room schoolhouse.”
802 Ed, published by Steven Berbeco, brings together the latest in education policy and practice for Vermont’s education leaders.
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“H887 requires that “a written report containing its preliminary findings and recommendations, including short-term cost containment considerations for the 2025 legislative session, on or before December 15, 2024.”“I’m going to publicly reprimand the timeline we were given and say that was an impossible timeline,” Commission Chair and House Ways & Means Committee Chair Emilie Kornheiser (D-Brattleboro)…”
Are you bleeping kidding me!!! She chairs the committee that wrote the freakin’ law!!! “We were given,” YEAH, BY YOU, you — polite words escape me.
Fine. And I’m going to reprimand Commission Chair and House Ways & Means Committee Chair Emilie Kornheiser (D-Brattleboro). Big deal. Where did dueling reprimands get us? Nowhere!
I suppose the next step is Double Secret Probation. Ooooohhh.
Every “commission” falls prey to this exact same thing. What do I mean? We start with a “goal”. We form a “commission” to lay out a plan to reach that “goal”. The “commission” meets. The “commission” gets 95% of the way to their recommendation in 3-4 meetings. Then the “commission” spends the next six months and 95% of their total effort trying to satisfy everyone with a minor personal agenda in an effort to achieve the last 5% of their “goal”. Which they never reach. Wash, rinse, repeat.
And I guess now we can add “Publicly complain”. No, we don’t “feel sorry for you” or “feel your angst”. If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the damn kitchen! I have no doubt we’d all be better off.
Geesh. All they have to do is dust off the H.405 School Choice bill Ms. Kornheiser has been sitting on for the past year and a half.
Has anyone here on VDC read it?
The future of education is ONLINE. All you carbon credit fixated jack boots should be on board with this. These are very easy fixes.
– Create a SINGLE State online school using already existing internet remote education platforms and allow any teachers anywhere in the world to use it to advertise their courses, and allow users anywhere in the world (prioritizing local VT folks for full classes), to sign up for those services and pay the teachers directly. Give incentives to top students, promoting them in the platform for tutoring jobs if they want side work or education credits.
– Take the current education “funding” and give those funds DIRECTLY to parents, earmarked for spending on their children. That 38+k per child per year is way more than enough they would ever need for even the best private grade schools. This might even encourage stay at home parents and closer families, or it could go to daycare. Once the infrastructure is in place we can then lower the 38k per child to less for working age children that can start paying for their own clothing and lunches etc.
End this cesspool of idiocy today! Obviously these people don’t want what’s “best for the children”
VermontVermonter has got it. Resurrect the parents as the purchasers of school services and curriculum. Let them contract directly with teachers for what they want.
You mean to say Madam Chair, we legislated the way, but we don’t have the means? Sounds about right for a majority of legislation, or rather Acts (meaning the segments played out in the theater of absurd, always playing at the Golden Thunder Dome.) Operation Tincup – the giant grift, the overturning of every couch cushion in the State, leveraging your child’s piggy bank and inheritence, lawfare warfare to turn every taxpayer into a serf for the State. It’s all coming down – falling down into it’s own cellar hole – let it be so!
The fact that we have 52 separate supervisory districts each with an expensive staff as opposed to one per county says it all.
Take the time to read the article below if you question if school choice works or not.
https://thefederalist.com/2024/10/22/the-school-choice-programs-democrats-hate-have-saved-taxpayers-up-to-45-billion/
In regards to this commission and Ms. Kornheiser, A broken government cannot be fixed by the same government that broke it.
This sounds like a high school sophomore whining about her homework. Here is the thing, young Emily….. the basic ideas and strategies for reducing cost in schooling are all WELL KNOWN, pretty well-researched, etc. The legislature apparently understands this, and so it didn’t ask your high mucky muck Commission to deliver the goods in two years, or something such. THE SAVINGS IDEAS ARE NEEDED NOW, and are available now. So, stop pouting and whining and GET TO WORK. Your term paper is due at the deadline set by the legislature. Period.
Isn’t it ironic that Ms. Kornheiser incompetently drained the education fund last year by (without reservation) giving it away to any district who wanted it and then complained that they all took too much and there wasn’t any left? And that the districts were too greedy. Never blaming her own naivety nor her incompetence. Her reward for being so stupid was to be given the Chairmanship of the House Ways and Means Committee and to Chair the Commission to find savings in the future. Its like making an arsonist the fire inspector. She had help. Senator Philip Baruth.
Sounds like they need to meet weekly in order to double their planning and research! Get on with it , and stop complaining about a timeline you helped establish.