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MONTPELIER â All by themselves, education funding and taxation in Vermont are politically challenging topics at the local level and in Montpelier.
Put them together, and then add a mechanism of addressing chronic underfunding of some schools â but raising education property taxes in communities that benefited from the current formula â and thereâs bound to be tension.
That was the case over the past few days, as the Vermont House of Representativesâ Education and Ways & Means Committees held meetings, jointly and separately, to discuss S. 13, a bill chartering an implementation plan for new per-pupil weighting factors in school districts across the state.
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weekly political column. Tim Newcomb Vermont has spent nearly $200 million in the past five years to clean up its waterways. But the threats to water quality only seem to have intensified, reinforcing the questions in some quarters about whether the state really has the will to do what s necessary to restore lakes and streams. Much of the focus in recent years has been on efforts to reduce phosphorus pollution, especially in Lake Champlain, because that nutrient fuels sometimes-toxic algae blooms, turns the water green and closes beaches. Now there appears to be a new reason or at least a newly discovered and scary-sounding one to worry about the health effects of the blooms.