John McClaughry: Struggling to discipline the ‘system’

Editor’s note: This commentary is by John McClaughry, the vice president of the Ethan Allen Institute. As a Vermont state senator, he was vice chair of the Senate Education Committee.
Over the past six weeks the House Ways and Means Committee has diligently worked to produce a coherent bill to shift education fund spending from some people and districts to other people and districts, and erect a disincentive to excessive school district spending. This is a very intricate and difficult task