John McClaughry: The annual education finance end game

Editor’s note: This commentary is by John McClaughry, the vice president of the Ethan Allen Institute.The Vermont General Assembly is in its final weeks of trying to assemble a school finance “reform” bill. Their product so far has become an ever-shifting grab bag of proposals that even veteran legislators must be struggling to follow from day to day.
The longer this goes on, the more it reminds us of the memorable closing words of Gov. Phil Scott’s explanation of why he