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School board chairs urge preservation of local control as Senate Education panel reviews redistricting map
Summary
School board leaders from Caledonia, Saguay Valley and Mountain View told the Senate Education Committee that a revised legislative map and governance changes must protect local schools, preserve high-school choice, clarify how the foundation formula will be applied and remove penalties that punish locally funded construction.
School board officials from several Vermont regions told the Senate Education Committee that redrawing legislative districts and reshaping school governance should not come at the expense of local control, school choice and critical career-technical partnerships.
Jason Miller, board chair of the Caledonia Cooperative School District, testified that his community needs more detail before choosing between a supervisory-union model and a consolidated school district. "In contrast, the supervisory union would preserve enhanced local control across all participating communities," Miller said, and asked the committee to confirm whether the foundation formula would be applied equally under either governance model.
Ronick Darnell Martin, school board chair for the Saguay Valley School District in Franklin County, urged the committee to leave his district as a…
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