Allen Gilbert: Voters had it right with school budgets

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Allen Gilbert, of Worcester, the former executive director of the ACLU-Vermont. He was chair of his town’s school board when it joined the ACLU’s Brigham lawsuit in 1995. He has remained active in education issues.
There have been some very good ideas, and some very bad ideas, over the years about changing the state’s education funding system.
One of the best ideas came more than a hundred years ago, when Gov. William Dillingham propos