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The Deerfield Valley News is an independent newspaper in southern Vermont that provides news coverage of the Mount Snow region including the Deerfield Valley towns plus Mount Snow, Hermitage Mountain, and Stratton Mountain. ....
Don t miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. Our Vermont legislators recently commissioned a state-of-the-art study to investigate how best to apportion funds to schools equitably. Unfortunately for the students of Vermont, it detailed serious inequities in school funding. What this study unveiled was an outdated distribution of funds to its districts. For 20 years the tax structure in Vermont has skewed away from fully supporting our most vulnerable students and families. Nearly 60 percent of Vermont schools have had their equalized students undercounted, some by more than 20 percent. This has led to higher tax rates and fewer resources for these schools. This has left lasting scars on our kids, and the deepest scars are in the poorest school districts. ....
Don t miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. WILMINGTON â Twin Valley voters will consider a $8,992,086 budget that meets the School Boardâs goals of saving taxpayers money and halting a financial penalty from the state. âIt represents a lot of hard work and a lot of great decreases and I think a very exciting phase if we can stay out of the penalty box,â said Kathy Larsen, board chairwoman. âThank you one and all.â Her comment came at the board meeting held remotely Tuesday after the fiscal year 2022 budget was unanimously approved to be presented on the March 2 ballot. The board had asked principals from the middle/high school in Whitingham and elementary school in Wilmington, to provide spending plans that better reflect the number of students, and they came back with a decrease of about 3.4 percent or $316,959 in expenditures in the third and final draft. ....
Don t miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. WILMINGTON â As School Board members came closer to finalizing a budget to go to voters, they received estimated spending plans from Twin Valley principals paving the way to getting out of what is referred to as the âpenalty box.â This budget season involved brainstorming to stop being financially penalized by the state for exceeding a spending threshold, which has been said to be more difficult for smaller or more rural school districts to avoid. Board meetings also have focused on how to use a sizeable surplus or fund balance and present budgets that better reflect Twin Valleyâs number of students. ....