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The secretary of education position was created in 2012 during the term of Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin. Holders of this office are: Armando Vilaseca (2012–2013) Rebecca Holcombe (2014–2018) Daniel M. French (2018–2023) Zoie Saunders (2024–present) [2]
The Governor's Institutes of Vermont (GIV), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in Winooski, Vermont, was established in 1982 under then-Governor Richard Snelling when Vermont’s Commissioner of Education and the Director of the Vermont Arts Council sought to provide greater depth in arts education to students in the state’s public schools.
The Vermont State Board of Education supervises and manages the Department of Education and the public school system. The board makes regulations governing attendance and records of attendance of all pupils; standards for student performance, adult basic education programs, approval of independent schools, disbursement of funds, and equal access to education for all Vermont students. [1]
Allowing everyone in Vermont to access higher education is a 'win-win' Vermont joins 24 states and the District of Columbia in allowing residents to access in-state fees and financial aid for ...
In 2007, state costs for special education was $264 million, more than double what it was in 1998. In 2008, 14% of public school students qualified for special help. [33] In 2010 Vermont ranked 49th out of 50 states in the nation for the amount spent subsidizing higher education, per capita. [34]
Armando Vilaseca was the former Commissioner of the Vermont Department of Education. [1] After leaving Cuba in 1964, Vilaseca settled in West New York, New Jersey, a community with a significant Cuban American community. There he attended Memorial High School. [2]
Governor Howard Dean (August 14, 1991 – January 9, 2003), who signed Act 60 into law.. Act 60, known as "The Equal Educational Opportunity Act", was a Vermont law enacted in June 1997 by the Vermont legislature intended to achieve a fair balance of educational spending across school districts, independent of the degree of prosperity within each district. [1]
Thomas F. Geraghty is the Class of 1967 B. James Haddad Professor of Law, and formerly the Associate Dean for Clinical Legal Education and Director of the Bluhm Legal Clinic at the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law.