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.