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House Education Committee previews statewide school-mapping tool for district planning
Summary
Committee members and Agency of Digital Services staff demonstrated an interactive GIS mapping tool that visualizes Vermont school locations, district and supervisory union boundaries, enrollment, facility condition index (FCI) and PCB testing results; presenters noted data limitations and invited requests for additional filters and modeled maps.
House Education Committee members on Feb. 28 reviewed an interactive statewide mapping tool created from datasets maintained by the Vermont Center for Geographic Information and assembled with public-data support from the Agency of Digital Services and Agency of Education.
The map lets users toggle layers showing school locations (public and independent), school district and supervisory union lines, CTE regions, regional planning commissions, population, enrollment by year, facility condition index (FCI) ranges, and PCB testing results. Annie, a presenter from the Agency of Digital Services, described the product as “a visualization tool, not a report” and emphasized that some data — especially independent-school enrollment and certain PCB/FCI fields — need refinement before being used for final policy decisions.
Committee members said the tool could inform line-drawing and…
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