From Ralph Pace and Black River Today, we have Nitka's Notes from The Statehouse, written by state senator Alice Nitka:
Education is always a topic that has House and Senate members expressing divergent views while all want the best for the children of our state. The same is true of the general public and this week I heard from those on both sides of the aisle with regard to school choice. On the radar this week was Senate bill 201, An Act Relating to Expanding Public School Choice for Elementary and High School Students. Many of our smaller towns in VT have school choice when they don’t have their own schools and aren’t members of a union. There is also limited public high school choice, up to ten students via agreements between high schools. The money from the state doesn’t follow the student and stays with the sending school. The Senate Ed Committee took testimony on S-201 and heard from residents from Kirby to Barnard to Berkshire to Chester. Principal Craig Hutt Vater of the Mount Holly School also testified and the information he presented was valued by the committee.
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