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Back To School Issues

Education Commissioner Armando Vilaseca discusses the top school issues, VPR’s John Dillon provides the latest on wind power developments and we listen back to the voices in the news this week.

Shumlin Pushes To Expand School Choice

Governor Peter Shumlin says he wants to work to support legislation this winter that would expand public school choice opportunities at the high school level. But the plan will face stiff opposition at the Statehouse.
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District Mergers Worry School Choice Advocates

Blue lawn signs with the words I vote school choice are springing up around the state. They signal a new development in an old campaign: people worried that the school choice they now enjoy will end if the state’s plan to merge districts goes forward.