Jack Hoffman: Act 60 turns 20 — a reflection

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Jack Hoffman, who a senior analyst at Public Assets Institute, a non-partisan nonprofit in Montpelier (publicassets.org). Before joining Public Assets, Jack was a reporter with the Vermont Press Bureau for 20 years and wrote extensively about education funding and Act 60. He attended the Act 60 signing in Whiting, Vermont.
The Equal Educational Opportunity Act, better known as Act 60, is 20 years old on Monday. On June 26, 1997, at an outdoor ceremony i