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Vermont's top journalists join host Mitch Wertlieb to delve into the most important news stories each week.
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We learn how AI is currently being used by teachers and students, and dive into some of the ethical concerns.
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The agency is a holding a series of listening sessions this summer to gather input on the state’s new school safety law.
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From hotly contested school budgets to debates over the taxes that fund our education system, it’s been an eventful school year in Vermont.
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Nearly a third of the state's school districts failed to pass a budget for fiscal year 2025 on the first vote.
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The bill will result in an average property tax increase of 13.8% to pay for locally-approved school spending. The ever-rising cost of education amid declining enrollment once again dominated discussion at the Statehouse this year.
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The students who first stepped onto the escalator in the former Macy’s building as freshmen are graduating. And while attending class in a defunct department store may sound pretty dystopian, for BHS’s class of 2024, that was just high school.
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Republican Gov. Phil Scott’s highly anticipated plan to lower statewide property tax bills next year is being panned by Democratic lawmakers as a “fiscally irresponsible proposal” that would compromise the state’s financial health for years to come.
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The veto comes three weeks before the end of the fiscal year for public schools in Vermont and sets up a potentially high-stakes negotiation as the clock winds down.
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After nearly 30 years at the Vermont Superintendents Association, Jeff Francis is retiring this summer. His career has spanned some of the consequential educational reforms in state history. He talked with Vermont Public's Lola Duffort about the overhauls he's seen over the years, the expanding role of public schools, and how we talk about the cost of public education.