Shocked? Don’t be. If the Legislature hasn’t shown any interested in its legal obligation to fund the state pension funds for two decades, why would it care about its legal obligation to appoint the Task Force it created solely for the purpose of avoiding the problem for at least another year?
Tucked into the proposed two-year state budget is a provision that would authorize “education freedom accounts” which would divert state educational dollars for students who choose to leave public schools to attend private, parochial or charter schools, or home schooling.
America has just celebrated a new national holiday, June 19 (“Juneteenth”). It was the date in 1865 when a Union general arrived in Galveston, Texas to announce that slavery had been abolished in America.
Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk is coming to the Green Mountain State this week. He will be speaking at 10 a.m. Sunday at Ignite Church in Williston.
“Opposition to critical race theory is obviously rooted in racism and has just become the newest dog whistle for racists,” the Michigan Democrat tweeted Thursday.
“They were not Southern plantation owners, as Vermont’s governor, Legislature and some statutes are saying they were. H.273 says that Vermont benefited from sharecropping and Jim Crow laws to push black people off farm land. That is a falsehood.”
Any curriculum or training program that does any of these things is classic critical race theory. Any functionary who denies it has simply not read her Derrick Bell — or may be lying to you.
Firearm preemption laws across the country currently face legislative and judicial challenges as local governments seek to regulate guns, a trend which threatens Second Amendment rights, a National Rifle Association spokesman said.
On Tuesday evening the Rutland City School Board held a public forum and again heard from both sides on whether to keep the Raiders name and arrowhead logo for its sports teams.
The House of Representatives on Wednesday successfully overrode the governor’s vetoes of H.227 and H.177, two bills that seek to allow noncitizen voting in Winooski and Montpelier, respectively. The Senate will take up the bills during an override session Thursday or Friday.
On Tuesday night, members of the Colchester School Board voted 4-1 to keep the controversial Black Lives Matter flag flying at local schools. Local resident Genna Barnaby spoke against the move ahead of the meeting, reading 12 pages of objections, saying BLM flags represent support for a political organization.
Vermont’s dire fiscal condition has been masked by COVID funds from the federal government, but when that wears off, taxes are going to have to come up to satisfy all these obligations, including the pension fund. Join other concerned Vermonters in discussing the issues.