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Laura Sibilia: “The way that we count students is basically we are…”

Featuring: Laura Sibilia, Independent | Vermont House of Representatives, Windham-Bennington District

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Marty Cohn interviews Rep. Laura Sibilia on her Campaign goals

Published | Video Starts at 07:05

And we had, we had been pushing on this issue, and I think I've spoken with you about the quote unquote weighting study that's, you know, how we count students. And we received a report last year that says that The way that we count students is basically we are subsidizing, paying more for students who need less dollars and providing less dollars for students who need more dollars. So because of COVID we had a pretty, we had a pretty big coalition the week actually of the, that the state of emergency happened. (07:05–07:28)

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Asserts that the current student funding model is inequitable.

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