The State Board of
Education voted on Tuesday to support Education Commissioner
Armando Vilaseca’s campaign to sharply reduce the number of school districts in
Vermont.
We hear from Education Commissioner Armando Vilaseca and Finance Commissioner James Reardon about their school budget cutting suggestions, and how they would change the school funding system. Also, a new report looks at how charities fundraise.
For school districts that don’t have their own high school, families
choose which school their kids attend. But as school boards look for
ways to save money, limiting school choice might be an answer.
VPR’s Jane Lindholm talks with Vermont’s education commissioner, former Rutland superintendent and a member of the organization Vermonters for Better Education about the economics of operating schools.