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MONTPELIER â The House version of a bill establishing a task force to implement new per-pupil weighting factors to be used in the stateâs public school funding formula passed out of the Education Committee on Thursday morning.
The bill, S. 13, now heads to the Ways & Means Committee for review. Itâs likely to come to the floor next week, as the legislature is seeking to adjourn by May 22.
A side-by-side comparison produced by legislative counsel for the Education Committee shows how the House proposes to amend the Senate version.
Among the proposed changes is a request that an updated, user-friendly simulator be created to showing how districtsâ weighting factors and tax rates would change. Currently, that information is available in a spreadsheet, but uses information from 2018, does not account for several Act 46 district mergers, and is not user-friendly.
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MONTPELIER â The Vermont House of Representatives Education Committee on Tuesday approved a trio of bills dealing with school facilities construction, a community schools program and a student literacy initiative.
The school assistance bill passed 10-1, with Rep. Casey Toof, R-Franklin 3-1, the lone no vote.
The bill requires the state Agency of Education to conduct a study of school facilities needs, as well as a study of how neighboring states have funded school building assistance programs.
Vermontâs neighbors all have such programs; the Green Mountain State last offered school building assistance funds in 2007.