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Lawmakers press for modeled roadmap before wholesale school funding overhaul
Summary
Senators told staff they will not support sweeping school-funding changes without modeled fiscal outcomes that combine funding formula, taxation and governance reforms; members called for a roadmap and rigorous checkbacks before major statutory changes.
Members of the Senate Finance Committee urged staff and the administration to provide modeled scenarios and a clear roadmap before advancing major reforms to Vermont’s school funding system.
The chair and several senators said a funding formula, taxation changes and governance restructuring must be modeled together so the committee can project district funding, tax rates and impacts on students. “We are going to have to have some idea about what we’re looking at,” one senator said, adding that without models she “can’t vote on something that I…
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