LNMUUSD FY27 Budget Information & Resource Page

The video recording posted below is of the first community budget discussion hosted by Lamoille North.

It includes round table small-group discussions about school budget priorities, as well as a presentation about Vermont's education reform law Act 73.

PLEASE NOTE - Just one day after this presentation was delivered, Vermont's School Redistricting Task Force chose not to endorse any map to be brought forth to the legislature. This was one of the group's primary objectives. After months of work, reviewing available data and receiving thousands of public comments from Vermonters, schools, school districts, and school boards, the Task Force stated that it could not, in good faith, deliver maps for review.

The School Redistricting Task Force in Vermont has shifted from drawing a mandated new map of school districts under Act 73 to instead proposing voluntary mergers of school districts as the main strategy. Task-force members argued that forcing large-scale consolidation would be disruptive and unlikely to deliver promised savings, so their nearly 170-page proposal recommends incentives for districts to merge over the next decade and the creation of five regional cooperative service agencies layered over existing structures. Meanwhile, the state’s Education Secretary contends the plan fails to meet Act 73’s requirement for a specific new district map and warns it could add complexity and cost rather than streamline the system.

Read more about their proposal HERE.