House Ways and Means - 2026-02-12 - 10:30AM

Ways & Means Committee · February 12, 2026

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Pre-kindergarten policy discussion

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Speaker 1 opened a wide-ranging discussion on pre-kindergarten: committee must decide which questions it will answer (age eligibility, program weight, guidance, minimizing harm) and what should be referred to Education or Human Services. Members raised financing, the appropriate age buckets (3–4 vs 4–5), foundation-formula implications, coordinator mandates, administrative capacity within districts, and whether funding should be delivered via capacity grants or contracts. Matt Levin (executive director, Vermont Early Childhood Advocacy Alliance) described regional resource-and-referral agency

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Ways & Means Committee meeting discussed pre-kindergarten program design and financing, considered amendments to H.577 establishing a Vermont prescription drug discount card program with testimony from pharmacists and the state treasurer, and heard Education Secretary Zoe Saunders on school construction funding and staffing needs.

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