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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 What this study unveiled was an outdated distribution of funds to its districts.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. ....
Thanks to last week’s vote by the Utah House of Representatives, efforts to change the name of Dixie State University inch forward but not without resistance. Opposition to a name change has shifted from preserving “heritage” to blaming “cancel culture” to the latest installment: weaponizing religion. According to a source, Sen. Don Ipson plans to prevent a vote on the Senate floor. Aiding his cause and stirring up considerable backing in southwestern Utah’s Latter-day Saint community is a blurring of the lines between spirituality and Senate. Timothy Anderson, a leader of the Defending Southwest Heritage Coalition, wrote a letter to local elected officials where he miscontextualized recent comments by President Dallin H. Oaks as an endorsement of the Dixie name. Dan MacArthur, a former mayor of St. George and recently returned mission president, also drew upon religion, writing, “You know, as do we that (cancel culture) will not stop until all vestiges of ....