Understanding Vermont's Education Spending and Funding Morass
Anyone interested in understanding Vermont's K-12 education spending and funding maze should hustle on over to Vermont Tiger and spend the time
to follow Hugh Kemper's five excellent tutorials on how the system works and what can be done about the escalating spending amid continually declining student enrollment.
The power to fix this rests with the Legislature. Pay no attention to the political rhetoric from Legislators who ramble on about local control. The fix for the excessive spending and constant tax increases is theirs. Local control is a myth.
Ask your legislator if s/he supports the present K-12 funding/spending/governance system. If they say no, that's a good sign.
Then ask what s/he intends to do about it this session. If s/he supports the present system, ask them to explain to you how it works and why they believe Vermont's spending per student has increased 6.7% annually for more than a decade is a 'good' thing.
Remember to vote rationally at Town Meeting!
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Education act or experience that has formative effect on the mind, character or physical ability of an individual. In its technical sense, education is the process by which society deliberated transmits its accumulated knoledge skill and values from generation to another. See this Education Learns thats at docfiles.org
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Education act or experience that has formative effect on the mind, character or physical ability of an individual. In its technical sense, education is the process by which society deliberated transmits its accumulated knoledge skill and values from generation to another. See this Education Learns thats at docfiles.org
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Education act or experience that has formative effect on the mind, character or physical ability of an individual. In its technical sense, education is the process by which society deliberated transmits its accumulated knoledge skill and values from generation to another. See this Education Learns thats at docfiles.org
$50 an hour gym teacher/
$50 an hour gym teacher/ play ground attendent at the local grammar school. That is just the towns cost for salary & health insurance and doesn't include the state funded pension. About $38 an hour of it is pay. What industry is the town competing against for the persons labor ?
Just about any retired person with interest in sports could be hired part time with no benefits to split the hours with another part timer and they would be happy with making a few extra dollars.
I could see a science teacher or advanced math teacher needing to be lured to the teaching profession with a good salary & benefits because they could take their job skills someplace else.
I could spend a few hours going threw the school budgets the town sent me and tear them apart, but why bother when most of the population doesn't want to hear they have been fools for years an are in total denial the high cost isn't producing any better end results.
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