By Tiffany Danitz Pache, VTDigger It’s budgeting season for school boards and keeping education costs down is a priority for the Scott administration. The state’s student population continues to shrink, schooling costs are still going up and most Vermonters haven’t […]
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Bill puts new formula, education fund surplus into play on taxes
By Tiffany Danitz Pache, VTDigger.org Lawmakers on the powerful House tax-writing committee have set homestead property tax rates for next year, using a new formula—the “yield” calculation — instead of increases in the penny rate. The bill also includes a […]
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Despite spending cap tweak, 106 school districts to be hit with tax penalty
Photo by Tiffany Danitz Pache/VTDigger Nicole Mace, executive director of the Vermont School Boards Association, speaks to the House Education Committee on the annual growth percentage component of Act 46. By Tiffany Danitz Pache, VTDigger.org The House Education Committee heard […]