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Preliminary town-meeting results: most Vermont school budgets pass as health care costs bite into districts
Summary
Agency of Education, superintendents association and school boards association reported preliminary results after Town Meeting Day: more than 100 budgets passed, nine budgets were defeated, and rising employee health insurance costs are consuming a larger share of school budgets.
Agency of Education interim CFO Sean Kusnell and representatives of the Vermont Superintendents Association and Vermont School Boards Association updated the Ways & Means committee on preliminary school budget results after Town Meeting Day.
Sean Kusnell said preliminary data covered 115 of the state’s school budgets and showed roughly $1.9 billion in spending among the 115 districts that had submitted budgets for the collection. He said the increase in net education spending measured so far is about 5.83 percent, or roughly $109,550,000 more than last year at this point in the reporting cycle.
Chelsea Myers, executive director of the Vermont Superintendents Association, told the committee that voters approved “over 90% or a hundred and…
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