Adam Greshin: A stronger, more sustainable education system

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Adam Greshin, the commissioner of the Vermont Department of Finance and Management.
Gov. Phil Scott believes we can make our education system the very best in the country, if we have the courage to rethink the current system, which is diverting valuable budget dollars away from kids and increasing the tax burden at an unsustainable rate.
The K-12 system was built to educate more than 100,000 kids. Today, we’re educating about 76,000. For 20 years,