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‘Significant is an understatement’: Supreme Court decision reverberates across Vermont’s school system

By Peter D'Auria

Jun 21 2022June 21, 2022

The U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Maine program that excluded some religious schools from receiving public money. That decision is expected to have consequences in Vermont.


One of Vermont’s independent schools is hiking its tuition. Could that spell trouble for local public schools?

By Peter D'Auria

Apr 21 2022April 21, 2022

The Vermont Agency of Education will allow The Sharon Academy, a school in Windsor County, to receive more publicly funded tuition. Not everyone is happy about it.


Vaughn Altemus: School choice and the crumbling of civic culture

By Commentary

Apr 3 2022March 31, 2022

Almost certainly a district with declining enrollment caused by universal choice will do the same as districts with declining enrollment caused by a shrinking student population: defer maintenance and cut programs. It is important to recognize the threat that presents to public education.


Molly Bachman: Why do Vermont taxpayers have to support private schools?

By Commentary

Mar 31 2022March 30, 2022

Vermont should reassert its belief in education as a public good and protect our education system from private interests that seek to access our education dollars.


Senate moves to restrict use of public money on religious schools

By Peter D'Auria

Mar 23 2022March 23, 2022

Brian Campion

The chamber preliminarily approved S.219, a bill that would place guardrails around public money in religious schools, on second reading.


How can religious schools and public money mix in Vermont?

By Peter D'Auria

Mar 2 2022March 15, 2022

Mount St. Joseph

As lawmakers advanced a bill to tighten restrictions on how religious schools use public tuition money, a new lawsuit seeks to loosen them.


As Vermont public schools shift to ‘test-at-home’ procedures, independent schools are told to wait

By Peter D'Auria

Jan 16 2022January 15, 2022

State officials told public schools this week to begin the transition to a new Covid-19 testing system. But officials said independent schools should continue to do what they are doing.


Rule-making for special ed in independent schools raises concerns over discrimination, finances

By Peter D'Auria

Nov 21 2021November 20, 2021

Oliver Olsen

Members of the public, and at least one member of the state Board of Education, are concerned that new rules being drafted could open the door for independent schools to discriminate when enrolling students.


Vermont can’t discriminate against religious schools. But can those schools discriminate against kids?

By Lola Duffort

May 5 2021June 28, 2021

A spate of national and state-level court rulings have been clear: States, including Vermont, cannot discriminate against religious entities when doling out public subsidies, including taxpayer-funded school vouchers.


Mill Moore: Is the public vs. private education conflict real?

By Commentary

Jun 26 2018June 26, 2018

When students have the opportunity to cross school district boundaries, economic stratification is diminished, not increased.


Voucher program helps well-off Vermonters pay for prep school

By VTD Editor

Jun 11 2018

Casey Deane

Regardless of their income, residents of small Vermont towns can use state vouchers to send their children to boarding schools and ski academies. Some school-choice advocates want to replicate the program nationwide.


Senate passes requirement for private schools to enroll special ed students

By Tiffany Danitz Pache

Mar 19 2018March 19, 2018

student

The bill would require private schools that take public money to educate all students, though public schools say they would still carry too much of the burden.


School choice advocates tout Vermont tuition voucher program

By Kelsey Neubauer

Jan 25 2018January 25, 2018

Brian Keefe

Vermont’s school choice system, which began in 1869, was one of the first in the country.


Private schools balk at new financial reporting analysis

By Tiffany Danitz Pache

Oct 26 2017

Rebecca Holcombe

The Vermont Department of Financial Regulation said they should provide the most recent audit of their financials and quarterly unaudited financials that include balance sheets, cash flow statements, income statements and reserves.


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