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MONTPELIER â Members of the Vermont Senate will spend some time with educators from the Vermont Human Rights Commission and Outright Vermont in the aftermath of comments made during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing earlier this month â including a racially insensitive comment made by Sen. Jeanette White, for which she later apologized.
Bor Yang, the executive director of the Vermont Human Rights Commission, said Balint and House Speaker Jill Krowinski reached out more than a month ago for a follow-up to training provided earlier this year by her and Xusana Davis, the stateâs executive director of racial equity.
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In honor of baseballâs Opening Day last week, Iâll start with a question: What does hitting or pitching a baseball have in common with solving the stateâs pension funding crisis?
The answer? If it was easy, anyone could do it.
When I was a would-be high school baseball player, I read âThe Art of Pitchingâ by Tom Seaver and âThe Science of Hittingâ by Ted Williams, hoping their Cooperstown-quality guidance would help me make the varsity roster.
âWould-be,â because I lacked the athletic ability to turn their sage advice into a spot on the squad.
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Xusana Davis would love to lose her job. Vermont s first executive director of racial equity says nothing would please her more than if state leaders told her they no longer needed someone working to eradicate systemic racism in state government. I have a bottle of Champagne waiting for that day, Davis told lawmakers recently. Because the point of equity work is, we want to put ourselves out of business. For now, however, the 32-year-old from New York State seems to have enough work to last a lifetime as she confronts the pervasive racial inequities plaguing the second-whitest state in the nation.
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Collecting and understanding racial data on the outcome of âhigh-impact, high-discretion momentsâ in the juvenile and criminal legal systems for Vermontâs Black, indigenous and person of color population takes a commitment of people and money â a commitment a state commission member asked lawmakers to affirm Thursday.
A report delivered to the State House and Senate judiciary committees on the effort suggested a staff of at least three people to make sense of data generated by Vermont law enforcement systems â data which, in some cases, is not compatible with other systems.