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MONTPELIER â With next Fridayâs crossover deadline approaching, the House and Senate Education Committees are both working on bills aimed at improving literacy among the stateâs youngest learners.
The Senate proposal, which is a committee draft, and the House version, H. 101, date back to efforts made last year at responding to a 2019 dip in Vermontâs literacy scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).
The 2019 scores showed that the stateâs fourth and eighth graders, while above the national average in reading, had scored lower than they had in 2017. In 2015, Vermont fourth graders scored at 230 on the NAEP assessment. That score fell to 226 in 2017, and to 222 in 2019.
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MONTPELIER â More than a year ago, a study commissioned by the Vermont Legislature concluded the stateâs pupil weighting system â its means of equalizing educational opportunity for rural students, economically disadvantaged students and English language learners â needed to be overhauled.
The potential changes in education property tax bills are significant enough that a bill proposing new weighting factors, considered by the House Education Committee on Tuesday, includes safety valves phasing in the biggest change and phasing in increases for communities where taxes rise more than 20 percent.
The committee was taking up the bill, H. 54, for the first time this season. A âwalkthroughâ led by legislative counsel James DesMarais provided lawmakers with background on the issue, and a step-by-step explanation of the bill.
An Eton College paedophile teacher was told he had committed the most gross breach of trust as he was jailed for five years today for late-night abuse of pupils.
Matthew Mowbray, 49, was found guilty of eight counts of sexual activity with a child after admitting downloading hundreds of indecent images of children.
He had run a photography club and took pictures of pupils before combining them with child abuse images to create his own indecent creations.
Mowbray - who taught geography at the £42,000-a-year college - had been branded a skilful and deceitful manipulator during the harrowing trial at Reading Crown Court.