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Public witnesses urge caution on 'education transformation' and call for robust fiscal analysis
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Two public witnesses told the Senate Education Committee that the state's education transformation law (Act 73) risks fiscal instability and loss of local voice; one speaker urged replacing the education secretary nominee and both called for detailed fiscal modeling and stakeholder engagement before major structural change.
Two members of the public testified to the Senate Education Committee during its site-visit hearing that the implementation of the education transformation law warrants greater caution, clearer vision and stronger fiscal analysis.
"Vermonters sent a very clear message that property taxes were crushing that," said Nikhil Goyal, a Burlington resident and sociologist at the University of Vermont, as he criticized the implementation approach for the education transformation bill enacted earlier in the year. Goyal said the reforms "neither had public support nor basis in research" and argued they were unlikely to reduce property taxes. He also called for a…
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