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.

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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.

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 …

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. …

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. 

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 …

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.