To cut bus routes or raise hot lunch
prices? We talk about the tough choices
schools face with rising food and fuel costs. Then, challenges facing 911 cell phone callers, and paying for college textbooks.
The Vermont House wants to get rid of a law that would
require high-spending towns to vote twice on their school budgets. But the
proposal faces a tough future in the Senate.
That’s because Senate Education Chairman Don Collins
thinks the two-vote approach will be an effective way to help contain costs.