School Budget

Gov. Phil Scott warned that, absent intervention, property taxes could spike again next year. Scott’s letter — and reactions to it — have underlined how little agreement or trust exists between the parties involved in trying to solve the problem.

Nearly every town in Vermont saw homestead education tax increases in the new fiscal year, with a few seeing increases over 30%.

Nearly a third of the state's school districts failed to pass a budget for fiscal year 2025 on the first vote.

In 1996, the town of Benson set a state record when, after two years of failed school budgets, its voters finally approved a spending plan on the 13th try. Amid a statewide tax revolt nearly 30 years later, school officials in the Slate Valley Unified Union School District, which includes Benson, are hoping history won’t repeat itself.

With Town Meeting just one month away, Democratic lawmakers announced a plan to rewrite the state’s education tax laws to induce at least some districts to go back to the drawing board and cut spending. If this proposal passes, some school budget votes will be postponed until later in the spring.

Property tax rates are currently projected to jump by more than 20% next year due to unexpectedly high budget proposals from local school districts. A plan from Democratic lawmakers would give schools time to revise and reduce their budgets.

The U.S. Department of Education last week chastised state officials for a “significant violation” of the Every Student Succeeds Act, a federal law that requires states to report annually about each school’s performance in exchange for federal aid to districts with large numbers of low-income students and English language learners.

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