The Vermont House has given
its preliminary approval to a bill that raises the statewide property tax rate for
education to one of its highest levels in several years.
A year-old Vermont
law to put the state on a common, statewide school calendar is not being
implemented and is being criticized as too rigid, but efforts to fix it appear
to have stalled.
One result of the
current system is that as spring vacation ends for students today in Bennington, Newport
and some other parts of the state, it will be just getting under way in Chittenden County.