Stephanie Mack

A conversation at Black Flannel explored how AI and emerging technologies can help Vermont small businesses improve productivity, use data more effectively, and compete in a changing economy.

Stephanie Mack examines proposals for limiting Vermont state spending, including spending caps, offsets for new expenditures, and greater fiscal accountability.

Recent remarks by Ben Kinsley of Campaign for Vermont (CFV) underscored a critical fact. Vermont remains the only state operating under a “yield” model for public education funding. This framework, rooted in Act 60 of 1997, was designed to equalize educational opportunity. Nearly three decades later, the evidence of its long-term effects on costs and outcomes warrants sober legislative review. What Is the Yield Model? Under Vermont’s system, school districts (or their communities) vote on...