Ethan Weinstein

The House Ways and Means Committee voted along party lines to back a foundation formula, one built on different assumptions than the model put forward by Gov. Phil Scott.

Education Secretary Zoie Saunders sent a letter on Friday requesting school district leaders respond in 10 days. Federal guidance argues schools have used diversity programs, “social-emotional” learning and “culturally responsive” teaching to discriminate against students.

People detained in Vermont’s prisons for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection struggle to call their families and have been exposed to physical violence.

The state sends more than 100 people to a for-profit prison in Mississippi, and Department of Corrections data shows Vermont’s prisons lack capacity to hold all the people in state custody.

After detaining Rümeysa Öztürk at ICE’s field office in St. Albans the night of March 25, court filings show, ICE officials placed her on a flight out of the airport in Burlington.

Scott has threatened to keep lawmakers in Montpelier if they don’t pass a plan to implement larger school districts and a new education funding formula.

Lawmakers are looking at reimbursing the Statehouse’s sergeant-at-arms for an X-ray machine used to scan bags during higher security risk days.

It’s unclear. The state receives about $490 million from the federal government for education, and more than 40% of staff in Vermont’s Agency of Education are paid with federal funds.

The Department for Children and Families hasn’t presented its caseload in a way that allows the program to be evaluated, a Columbia University academic testified to Senate lawmakers.

The vote ends a long saga over Saunders’ appointment that included a now-dismissed lawsuit.