Jack Hoffman: Governor’s plan would raid the education fund

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Jack Hoffman, who is a policy analyst for Public Assets Institute, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization based in Montpelier.Public education — pre-K through 12 — has become a coveted source of revenue in recent years. People look at the $1.7 billion education fund and imagine how some efficiencies here, a little school consolidation there, could free up hundreds of millions of dollars.
Now Gov. Phil Scott has proposed his “Five-Year E