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Town Meeting Day is the time when school budgets are debated and voted on.But the resistance across Vermont to the forced mergers brought on by Act 46…
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Debates about school district consolidations elicit strong feelings, on every side of the issue.Opponents of Act 46 say it is destroying small…
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An Act 46 vote held in a half-dozen Lamoille County towns Tuesday could spell the defeat of a state-ordered school district merger.The question put to…
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This week House lawmakers gave an extension to some—but not all—school districts that have yet to merge under Act 46, giving some districts as much as an…
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House lawmakers have decided that some Vermont school districts need more time to comply with a merger mandate, but they’ve left a fast-approaching…
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House lawmakers appear poised to grant a yearlong reprieve to about half of the Vermont school districts that face a fast-approaching deadline for…
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The Vermont House of Representatives will vote next week on postponing implementation of a controversial school governance law.Act 46, passed in 2015,…
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A tri-partisan group of lawmakers want to postpone a legal deadline that will otherwise force Vermont school districts into involuntary mergers by July…
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The Agency of Education is recommending that school districts abide by the deadlines spelled out in Act 46, Vermont’s school district consolidation law,…
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Many involuntary mergers under Act 46 are on hold — for now. This comes after lawyers on both sides of the legal issue agreed there needs to be additional…