Senate and House Approve Key Education Bills, Paving Way for Governor's Signature

Vermont Legislature adjourns 2026 session that centered, again, on education reform

Speaker of the House Jill Krowinski, D-Burlington, gavels the House into adjournment at the Statehouse in Montpelier on Friday, May 29, 2026. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger MONTPELIER — After a week of fits and starts with negotiations that at times dragged into the night, the Vermont Legislature adjourned its 2026 session on Friday, just shy of five months after lawmakers first filed into the Statehouse in early January. The Senate gaveled out…

Senate and House Approve Key Education Bills, Paving Way for Governor's Signature

The Senate and House passed legislation Friday that promises to reshape how schools are funded and governed in Vermont. The bill include provisions to encourage voluntary mergers of school districts as well as regional resource-sharing — measures that lawmakers hope will ease pressure on property taxpayers. Passing the hotly debated bills on Friday cleared the way for an orderly adjournment. Conference committees worked late into Thursday night …

Vermont House, Senate Pass Compromise Education Reform Bill

Vermont’s push for education transformation took a big step forward with the passage of H955 on Friday by both the Senate and the House, following two days of conference committee work to resolve final details that ran late into Thursday…