Harrison: Sausage-Makers Grinding Out Housing, School Funding Bills - Vermont Daily Chronicle

Harrison: Sausage-makers grinding out housing, school funding bills - Vermont Daily Chronicle

The legislative process is sometimes likened to sausage making, not pretty to watch. That was certainly true last week at the State House with education reform and a major housing bill being considered.

Education Reform: Trust Vermont Values - The Hardwick Gazette

GREENSBORO – The road to education reform in Vermont has been long and winding, and we are at another crossroads. Driven by increasingly unaffordable property tax bills, House bill H. 454 attempts to use district consolidation as a cost-saving measure along with a funding formula change meant to contain spending. With no proof that this tactic will actually save money, and plenty that suggests it will not, this legislation heads us dangerously i…