Panel fails to break deadlock over private schools’ public funding

Nicole Mace is executive director of the Vermont School Boards Association. File photo by Tiffany Danitz Pache/VTDigger
A panel with representatives of public and private schools has been unable to iron out differences over special education and financial accountability for independent schools in advance of a legislative deadline.
In fact, the gulf between public and private school interests hasn’t changed since the study committee’s first meeting in May. It will miss a Dec. 1 deadli