While educators, administrators, parents and kids are doing their very best to make things work, the statewide system is broken and failing them. So what's causing the problem? First, it's the way we pay for the funding formula. 48 states set the amount they will spend on education each year. Vermont does not. Here, every school budget is set by school boards, and if local voters pass it, the state is required to pay it no matter how much it costs. (23:28–23:36)
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Asserts that Vermont does not set an annual education spending amount like 48 other states.
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