Governor’s education funding plan fails legislative math test

Steve Klein, director of the Joint Fiscal Office. File photo by Elizabeth Hewitt/VTDigger
An analysis by the Legislature’s Joint Fiscal Office has poured cold water on the Scott administration’s claim that it can hold the line on school taxes while also generating hundreds of millions of dollars in savings over the next five years.
A draft report, which JFO analysts presented to the House Ways and Means Committee on Tuesday, described as “questionable” the assumptions on