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Vermont adult‑education providers press House Education to back compromise funding language
Summary
Providers told the House Education Committee that an Agency of Education RFP replaced the State Board funding formula with a per‑student allocation that would cut rural providers; they asked the committee to recommend compromise budget language to the conference committee while a longer review proceeds.
Catherine Kaukstein, executive director of Central Vermont Adult Education, and Brian Kravis, director of outreach and workforce development at Central Vermont Adult Education, told the Vermont House Committee on Education on May 6 that a recent Agency of Education request for proposals (RFP) shifts how state adult‑education funds are allocated and would sharply reduce funding for providers in more rural counties.
Kaukstein said the RFP “completely replaced the state board funding formula with the 26 percent two‑year average” and that the agency’s per‑pupil allocation in the RFP “has become … the sum total of the allocation.” She told the committee the change would cause significant cuts in some regions: “Northeast Kingdom will lose over $500,000 in funding,” she said.
The audience heard that while the statewide appropriation for adult education was not reduced this budget cycle, the agency’s approach to distributing that appropriation—moving from the long‑standing State…
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