Phil Scott

With a key legislative deadline looming, lawmakers raced to get key policy bills out of committees this week.

The legislation would require Republican Gov. Phil Scott to vet the legality of federal mobilization orders, and to refuse any deployments that didn’t meet constitutional muster. But the governor, and many lawmakers, say the bill itself is illegal.

Burlington resident Amanda Janoo is taking early aim at Scott’s controversial plan to reform Vermont’s education system and says she'll oppose "forced mergers" and "forced school closures."

Most of the school budget defeats on Tuesday came in lower-income districts, and education officials are worried about a widening economic gap "between the haves and the have nots."

Legislative leaders hope new projections for property tax growth over the next three years will breathe life into foundering education reform negotiations.

A national group that advocates for school choice filed a civil suit against the state of Vermont that takes aim at what it calls “drastic and unprecedented new restrictions that cut off access to dozens of schools throughout the state.”

U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Hank Harder inherits leadership of a 3,000-member Army National Guard and 1,000-member Air National Guard, the latter of which recently participated in a federal mission that resulted in the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.

Forced school district consolidation isn't the only obstacle to reform this year, because Vermont lawmakers will also have to poke the hornet’s nest that is school choice.

A special docket aimed at reducing a backlog of low-level offenses in Chittenden County has cleared just over 700 cases. The governor is pushing to expand the initiative to other counties.

As the acting U.S. attorney for Vermont, Michael Drescher led the Trump administration’s high-profile prosecutions of two students who were arrested and detained by federal immigration authorities last year for their outspoken criticism of the war in Gaza.