By Lisa Ventriss, President, Vermont Business Roundtable
Art Woolf’s latest critique of K-12 education spending and outcomes, and Act 46 implementation in particular (“Is VT getting what it pays for in education?” Burlington Free Press 3/10/16) made me remember some important milestones along Vermont’s path to education reform.
In 2006, the Vermont Business Roundtable and partners commissioned a study entitled, “Vermont State Public Education Expenditure Overview and Analysis”, which was intended to provide a broad overview of the primary “cost drivers” affecting public education expenditures in the state, and examine factors that may affect future expenditure growth. Included in the study’s fact set were charts that showed two important trends: (more…)
