#GivingTuesday

With lawmakers resisting calls to fix the flaws in our ed funding formula, we need your help today to fight for equitable educational opportunities for all of VTs children and communities. Please donate and/or retweet us. https://cvtse.org/donate #Vtpoli #GivingTuesday

Education Experts Voice their Concerns over Legislative Work on Education Funding Inequity

On Monday the Coalition for Vermont Student Equity (CVTSE) hosted The Future of Equity in Vermont Education: A Panel Discussion. The panel considered the glaring inequities in Vermont’s current funding formula and the harms that have been caused to Vermont’s most struggling communities. They also discussed the discriminatory nature of the recent proposal to remove English language learners from the equity formula and their grave concerns over the pending recommendations of the Pupil Weighting Task Force. 50 people were in attendance, and there was a question and answer period at the end.

Giving Tuesday is Approaching: Please Support CVTSE

#GivingTuesday is coming right up! But you don’t have to wait until then. Please make a gift if you’re able to help us fight for equitable educational opportunities for VT’s poor, rural and diverse districts. #Vtpoli #Vted #FixTheFormula #equity Donating is easy and every penny helps CVTSE continue to fight for the equity every Vermont …

The Future of Equity in Vermont Education – Nov 29th – Panel Discussion

The Coalition for Vermont Student Equity invites you to join our panel of experts to discuss how the work being done by the legislative Task Force on the Implementation of the Pupil Weighting Factors report will affect the issue of equity in our education funding system.

CVTSE ED To Task Force: Carpe Diem!

For more than two decades now, many people suspected the pupil weights being used to determine each district’s portion of the education fund were incorrect. The Pupil Weighting Factors Report, authored by the University of Vermont and Rutgers University and delivered to the legislature in 2019, confirmed this.  As a legislative task force meets ahead …

Do You Care About Social Equity?

A legislative task force in Vermont is proposing that English language learners should be funded separately from their native English speaking peers. This will only further the disparities between rich and poor, BIPOC and white. It’s that simple. Vermont should fund the education of English language learners the same way affluent white students are funded. …

Enough! Two decades of iniquity, Correct Pupil Weighting Formula Now!

For more than two decades now, many people suspected the pupil weights being used to determine each district’s portion of the education fund were incorrect. The Pupil Weighting Factors Report, authored by the University of Vermont and Rutgers University and delivered to the legislature in 2019, confirmed this. 

Kolbe et al Respond to Information Request by Co-Chairs