An Empowerment Scholarship Account is essentially a prepaid bank card that parents can use to pay for their child’s education costs — books, tutoring, private school tuition, and educational therapy, for example.
The candidate who made national headlines for winning six primary election contests in August is waging an even bigger battle in Vermont’s highest court: the battle over Act 46.
Note to CNN: The leader of this latest staged immigrant caravan isn’t just a “former lawmaker from Honduras,” he’s a socialist revolutionary.
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos spoke this week about her efforts to restore local control of education, the Trump administration’s priorities for higher education, and the rising support of socialism among young people.
“If the judiciary can subject the executive branch to new, disruptive and invasive reviews, the power of the judiciary is enhanced while the power of the executive has been diminished. That is a tilt we cannot abide.”
Janssen Willhoit joined the Legislature only two years ago, but now the St. Johnsbury representative has given up his seat to run for attorney general following a special GOP nominating process in late August.
Vermont corporate income tax (CIT) receipts through September, 2018 jumped a whopping 80 percent over the first nine months of 2017. Grateful lawmakers can thank the main architect of the 2017 federal tax cuts: President Donald Trump.
Most Vermonters live within an hour’s drive of Quebec, Canada. There have been elections in the provinces throughout the year, and in almost every case provincial voters have chosen more conservative parties and candidates.
Mexico sent federal police to its southern border Wednesday with a warning that they will detain and deport any members of a highly publicized migrant caravan who try to enter the country without a visa.
Four states — Oregon, Washington, Vermont, and now California — have enacted state-level net neutrality laws. However, power to regulate in this area is expressly granted to the federal government by the Constitution.
In this State Headliners, the power grid chief is set to back a carbon tax, and feds approve Vermont Yankee sale.
Five candidates for state Senate faced-off in a forum Monday evening in the Channel 17 studios, and voters got to hear distinctly different plans for Vermont from both the left and right.