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By ETHAN WEINSTEIN

“Over the past year, I have done what I said I was going to do,” Zoie Saunders, Vermont’s secretary of education, told lawmakers on the Senate Education Committee Tuesday as they considered her appointment as the state’s top public education official for the second time in less than a year. 

By ETHAN WEINSTEIN

The Vermont House and Senate have constructed diverging versions of education reform proposals in recent weeks, setting up a clash between the two chambers.

By ETHAN WEINSTEIN

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday calling for the dismantling of the U.S. Department of Education.

By ETHAN WEINSTEIN

Despite more than a year of political focus on the cost of Vermont’s education system, voters across the state by and large backed their local school budgets on Town Meeting Day.

By ETHAN WEINSTEIN

MONTPELIER — For the first time, Gov. Phil Scott and his team released their education reform proposal in bill form, all 176 pages of it, for lawmakers’ consideration on Tuesday.

By ETHAN WEINSTEIN

Gov. Phil Scott’s education reform ideas have absorbed much of the Legislature’s attention, but lawmakers are growing impatient with his administration for not yet introducing a bill with all the details. 

By ETHAN WEINSTEIN

The Vermont Supreme Court Friday dismissed a suit filed by two senators over Gov. Phil Scott’s appointment of Zoie Saunders as interim education secretary, calling the case “moot.”

By ETHAN WEINSTEIN

Gov. Phil Scott’s education proposal would allow every student to opt into a school choice lottery system within their regional school district. 

By ETHAN WEINSTEIN

As part of Gov. Phil Scott’s wide-ranging proposal for change in public education, he suggested transferring rulemaking authority from the State Board of Education to the Vermont Agency of Education. 

By ETHAN WEINSTEIN

The Vermont Legislature’s nonpartisan fiscal analysts are raising concerns with lawmakers over a wide-ranging overhaul of state administrative software expected to cost more than $70 million.

By ETHAN WEINSTEIN

MONTPELIER— State officials unveiled the broad strokes of Gov. Phil Scott’s education proposal Wednesday, a plan that includes sweeping changes like consolidating Vermont’s dozens of school districts to just five and adopting a foundation formula. 

By ETHAN WEINSTEIN

MONTPELIER — Gov. Phil Scott recently previewed a wide ranging crime bill targeting younger and repeat offenders that he’ll soon be proposing to legislators.

By ETHAN WEINSTEIN

Mimi Brill, Windham County’s supervising public defender, remembered one remote court hearing that neared catastrophe.

By ETHAN WEINSTEIN

MONTPELIER — As he kicked off his fifth term leading Vermont, Gov. Phil Scott on Thursday used his inaugural address to preview his two top legislative priorities: creating new housing and reforming the state’s education funding system.

By ETHAN WEINSTEIN

The executive director of the Vermont Democratic Party, Jim Danendeau, is stepping down next month.

By ETHAN WEINSTEIN

A group of lawmakers and a Vermont Agency of Education executive tasked with designing a potential school construction aid program have hashed out the details but stopped short of identifying a funding stream.The group is hoping Gov. Phil Scott will...

By ETHAN WEINSTEIN

Lawmakers gathered Wednesday for an annual legislative briefing, a refresher on the state’s revenues and budget with a focus on two of the most pressing topics of the day: education finance and housing.“What I would ask you is this: What is your prize...

By ETHAN WEINSTEIN

Vermonters can expect a 5.9% average increase in education property taxes next year absent major changes, according to a forecast from the Vermont Department of Taxes.The news arrived Monday in the form of the “Dec. 1 letter,” an annual projection...

By ETHAN WEINSTEIN

Zoie Saunders, Vermont’s interim secretary of education, has hailed the importance of data in revitalizing the state’s education system since she took office this spring.Stakeholders say they desperately need data. School districts are building...

By ETHAN WEINSTEIN

Vermonters cited affordability as a top priority in the 2024 election, and last week, they voted to send more Republicans to Montpelier than in recent decades. Driving affordability concerns is the cost of education, which fueled this year’s average...

By ETHAN WEINSTEIN

The Vermont Republican Party has dismantled Democrats’ supermajority in the Vermont Senate, unseating four incumbents and dominating races for open seats. Republicans toppled Democratic incumbents in the Addison, Orange, Chittenden-North and Grand...