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Joint Fiscal Office tells committee contractor will recommend how Vermont should fund CTE; report due Dec. 2026
Summary
Joint Fiscal Office staff updated the House Committee on Commerce & Economic Development that a contractor (American Institutes for Research) is studying how career and technical education should be counted and funded under Act 73; staff said the report is due to the General Assembly in December 2026 and offered enrollment, tuition and governance data to inform that work.
The House Committee on Commerce & Economic Development heard on April 14 that a contractor hired under Act 73 will recommend how Vermont should account for and fund career and technical education (CTE) under the state's new education finance formula.
A Joint Fiscal Office staffer, Julia of the Joint Fiscal Office, told members the General Assembly required JFO to contract with one or more experts in section 45a of Act 73 to review unresolved finance issues. JFO chose the American Institutes for Research (AIR) to perform the full scope of work, and Julia said "this report is due back to the general assembly in December 2026." She said the contractor's scope includes recommending whether CTE should be handled as a weight, a component of the foundation base, or as categorical aid and specifying potential funding streams and amounts.
Committee members asked how prescriptive the contractor's recommendations would be and whether the contractor would present multiple policy options. Julia said the consultant is charged…
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