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House Education committee briefed on how Vermont tuition rates are set under current law
Summary
Legislative counsel walked the House Education Committee through Title 16, Chapter 21 provisions that determine town tuition rates, including differences for public schools, approved independent schools, CTE centers and prekindergarten under Act 166; committee members discussed budget pressures but took no formal action.
The Vermont House Education Committee spent about a half hour on April 24, 2025, receiving a statutory briefing on how town tuition rates are set for public and approved independent schools, legislative counsel St. James told members.
The briefing reviewed Title 16, Chapter 21 — the town tuition program — and the related sections that govern how a student’s sending district pays tuition for elementary and secondary students. St. James, legislative counsel in the Office of Legislative Counsel, read the controlling language and explained statutory limits, reconciliation rules and exceptions.
St. James told the committee that “the district shall pay the full tuition charge to students attending a public elementary school,” while also describing how the law establishes alternative caps for approved independent schools and how the Agency of Education (AOE) calculates and publishes announced tuition figures. He also noted a reconciliation process that triggers if a receiving district’s tuition charge differs by more than 3 percent from the AOE’s calculated net cost per pupil.
The committee heard that for elementary…
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