School boards: Go slow on income tax proposal

The head of the school boards association told lawmakers on Thursday that dramatic changes to the education finance system should wait for a year.Nicole Mace, executive director for the Vermont School Boards Association, says school districts have already prepared budgets for fiscal year 2019 and changes midstream would be disruptive.“As you know, the vast majority of our school boards have completed their budgets,” Mace said. “They will stand before their communities in a matt