Senate guts House ed finance reform

​Sen. Ann Cummings, D-Washington, is the chair of the Senate Finance Committee. File photo by Erin Mansfield/VTDigger
House education finance reforms have been jettisoned by the Senate.
The plan, which creates a new school income tax and would have reduced property taxes by 10 percent, didn’t stand a chance in the Senate Finance Committee. Lawmakers came to the conclusion Monday that the proposal wasn’t fully baked. The bill, H.911, was taken up by the Senate Thursday.
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