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A former strategist for a for-profit charter school company headquartered in Florida, Saunders has come under fire for her scant experience in traditional public schools.
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The Committee on Committees is a three-person panel that determines Senate committee appointments. Sen. Jane Kitchel fills the vacancy Sen. Dick Mazza left when he resigned earlier this month.
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The provision would create Vermont’s first user fee for electric vehicles starting in 2025. An annual fee of $89 for EV users would create revenue stream to subsidize the construction of charging stations.
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Sen. Bobby Starr will not seek reelection after a long run in Montpelier. The Orleans County senator was first elected to the Vermont House in 1979, and the Vermont Senate in 2004.
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Every year, lawmakers must pass a bill that sets the property tax rates necessary to pay for school budgets. For this week’s edition of the Capitol Recap, we explore how lawmakers in the House want to use this legislation to respond to double-digit property tax hikes.
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Roughly one in three school budgets failed in Vermont on Town Meeting Day this year. School districts across the state are now entering second and third voting rounds to get budgets approved by voters.
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Multiple bills aimed at modernizing Vermont’s signature land-use law have circulated around the Statehouse this year, drawing intense debate. Now, those bills have become one.
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Two young citizens of Odanak First Nation described what they call Indigenous identity theft, particularly in Vermont, at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. The Abenaki Councils of Odanak and W8linak bought a billboard in Times Square to highlight the topic.
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The latest estimates project the average homestead tax bill to go up 15% while the average non-homestead bill will rise 18%. That’s not much lower than the 18.5% tax increases initially forecast.