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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.