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Last week in this space, we revisited the origins of Vermont’s school funding system in the context of panic-inducing predictions of sky-high school budgets and tax rates for next year. How that will play out is not yet clear, but the uncertainty has...

By ALEX HANSON

The Vermont Supreme Court has dismissed a lawsuit brought by three families who argued that the state should pay for all students to attend the school of their choice, public or private.The court’s March 17 decision in Vitale v. Vermont affirms a...

By ALEX HANSON

The meetings of the Strafford School Board tend to be full of practical questions that need resolution. There isn’t much time for philosophical discussion of education, board Chairwoman Sarah Root said in a recent interview.But a subject that has been...

By ALEX HANSON

In meetings Wednesday, officials with the Hanover, Norwich and Dresden school districts considered cuts to budgets that will come up for approval by the districts’ boards in the next two weeks.Those discussions revealed two communities facing very...