Did House Bill 361 really create educational equality for the “children”
To the Editor,
In April 2015, the Vermont Legislature passed House Bill 361, better known as Act 46, with bold promises of increasing efficiency, lowering property taxes, and creating greater educational equity “for the children” These promises were false. Instead, this law is forcing too many of Vermont’s rural schools to close, putting our teachers out of work, and laying waste to our small towns. At the same time education property taxes continue to rise.
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