Vermont Daily Chronicle

Too late for voters considering Article 22, expert/lawmaker discussion of new legislation answers some then-unanswered questions about the controversial amendment to the Vermont Constitution.

S66, a bill intended to cut religious schools out of public tuition, could lead to the closure of private Lyndon Institute, thus depriving NEK sudents of their long-standing tuition high school.

This retreat from Vermont’s long practice of parental choice for their children in tuition towns will be a disgraceful victory for a public school monopoly that puts its own interests far ahead of the interests of the pupils that Vermont education is supposed to serve.

Let the State of Vermont ‘fix’ the housing crisis like the way it fixed the education spending crisis and the climate crisis? Beware the Trojan Horse.

Despite higher-than-college per-pupil costs, only 40% of VT public school students meet grade level standards, and discipline and school safety are problematic.

If the people building the more stick-than-carrot Affordable Heating Act were building a house, I would go nowhere near it.

“Public schools are in a crisis,” school superintendent Libby Bonesteel said. “Every school system has students who are explosive in ways that we have never seen before…. Teachers are quite literally scared, and administrators are at a loss. People are getting hurt, and rooms are getting trashed.”

An Abenaki activist asks senators where the social justice and equity went when S5, the not Affordable Heating Act, was drafted.

Vermont’s renewable power development was patterned after Germany’s – and now our European ally is looking at electricity shortages, after closing their nuclear power plants. Sound familiar?

A new Education and Civic Engagement Coordinator position has been created because sometimes people don’t know how to vote, or they don’t know the candidates, or they don’t know whether their vote will make a difference.

Amid the worst worker shortage ever, the State of Vermont is emulating the states workers are leaving in droves.

Some regulation is needed to protect Vermonters and the environment – but right now, Act 250 hinders farm and forest operations, a Lyndon lawmaker on the House ag/foresty committee says.

Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime, but helplessness is a learned behavior.

Governments use money as well as weapons to wage war.

Senators seem more interested in building a legal argument against violating interstate commerce law than answering questions about cost and potential smuggling.