Scott’s education funding plan fails legislative math test

Mark Perrault, analyst for the Joint Fiscal Office, tells the House Committee in January about predicted increases in the statewide property tax rates. Photo by Amy Ash Nixon/VTDigger
An analysis by the Legislature’s Joint Fiscal Office has poured cold water on the Scott administration’s claim that it can hold the line on school taxes while also generating hundreds of millions of dollars in savings over the next five years.
A draft report, which Joint Fiscal Office analysts presented