Scott wants more school spending cuts after budgets passed

Gov. Phil Scott speaks at the Northshire Bookstore in Manchester on Wednesday. Photo by Jim Therrien/VTDigger
What was once a two front battle being waged by Gov. Phil Scott’s administration to keep school spending down shifted to an exclusive focus on statewide cost-containment measures after Town Meeting Day.In the fall, the governor asked school boards to be cost conscious while budgeting. They delivered. On Tuesday, towns approved 96 percent of school budgets, which collectively kept s