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

CVTSE Board releases Op-Ed

Our poorest and most diverse Vermont school districts have been critically underfunded for decades. This is due to inherent flaws in our pupil weighting formula, which directs how Vermont calculates student needs and allocates education funds across the state. The Pupil Weighting Factors Report of 2019, commissioned by the legislature and written by researchers from …

Use Federal Funds to Mitigate Impacts to Overweight Districts

Vermont incorrectly distributes education funds in a way that awards more affluent districts at the expense of low-income, rural and diverse districts. We have the UVM/Rutgers 2019 study to prove it. Vermont also has an unprecedented amount of federal dollars in our state coffers right now. That means we can fix this flaw while mitigating impacts on more affluent district. But we must act now or we will lose our opportunity to help districts roll in these changes.

VT Education Formula: Systemic Racism and Classism

The current formula we use in Vermont to calculate student need and then allocate resources is a prime example of systemic racism and classism.

CVTSE Reacts to Task Force Proposal to Eliminate ELL from Pupil Weighting Formula

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, October 11, 2021 Contact:  Marc Schauber 802-780-0266 marc@cvtse.org STATEMENT BY THE COALITION FOR VERMONT STUDENT EQUITY ON LEGISLATIVE PROPOSAL TO REMOVE ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS FROM THE PUPIL WEIGHTING FORMULA A legislative task force that has been meeting over the summer and fall to implement the 2019 Pupil Weighting Factors Report decided on Friday to take …