Burlington parents push city for lost school funds

Parent-Teacher groups are calling on Burlington Mayor Miro Weinberger to be creative in finding ways to fund city schools. File photo by Bob LoCicero/VTDigger
BURLINGTON — Parent-Teacher organizations are pushing Mayor Miro Weinberger to come up with new ways to support Burlington’s schools.
For years, the city split its PILOT funds — an acronym for payments in lieu of taxes, money that comes from sources like water and electric ratepayers and tax-exempt institutions like the U