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Letter: Sunderland commemorates death of Lucy Terry Prince


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To the Editor: On Sunday, July 11th, a group of more than 30 area residents gathered outside Sunderland’s Town Hall to commemorate the Bicentennial of Lucy Terry Prince’s death in the town of Sunderland.
For readers who do not know the Lucy Prince Story, she was a former slave, brought to New England from Africa as a young child. Through her engrossing poem “Bars Fight” (1746), she’s in our American history books as the first known African American poet. In addition to being a poet and a powerful storyteller, she was an eloquent advocate for equal treatment under the law, having defended her family’s rights all the way up to the Vermont Supreme Court. Her husband, Abijah, was a free man and entrepreneurial landowner who, with his family, for many years, lived in Guilford. He was also one of the original land proprietors in Sunderland. The couple raised six children and, after Abijah’ ....

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Per-pupil weighting task force gets to work, takes first look at potential impact


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The legislative task force established to proposed changes in the state’s per-pupil weighting factors for K-12 education funding set its agenda on Tuesday, naming state Rep. Emilie Kornheiser of Brattleboro as a co-chair and setting an aggressive agenda for addressing the complex issues surrounding education finance in Vermont.
The committee was formed to draft legislation for implementing new per-pupil weighting factors generated in a 2019 University of Vermont study. The study found that the per-pupil weights used by the state — a means of addressing the inequity in the state’s school funding formula employed in the wake of the Brigham decision — weren’t based on empirical data, and had perpetuated rather than addressed funding inequity. ....

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