Today’s Common Sense call-in radio show with Bill Sayre on WDEV will be "school choice should replace Vermont's ineffectual, inequitable, and unconstitutional ed funding formula”, The show is at 11AM on FM 96.1, 96.5, 101.9, and AM 550 and Live Streaming from More...
The current educational funding formula is not constitutional, effective, or equitable.
Unconstitutional
“Children who live in property-poor districts and children who live in property-rich districts should be More...
What has the legislature done?
Several years ago the Vermont legislature passed now notorious Act 127 which made major changes in how state funding for education is raised and allocated. The act didn’t come into effect until this budge More...
The Vermont legislature is playing an expensive shell game… and planning worse. The “equalized pupil” is the shell under which the pea is hidden.
OK. We all know there is a property tax crisis in Vermont. The average amount Vermonters pay in educational property tax is going to More...
Chatbots powered by AI and large language models (LLMs) don’t always answer questions accurately. Neither do humans for that matter. We can’t blindly trust what ChatGPT tells us nor what we read on Facebook or X. Not everything we learned in school is correct. Your neighbor may be smart but she’s More...
Resolved: Vermont should devote available limited resources only to mitigating the effects of climate change rather than attempting to prevent it.
“What’s the most powerful programming language?” I asked grandson Jack as we zoomed together on our latest project.
“ChatGPT?” he guessed, perhaps giving some deference to my known obsessio More...
It should be required, not banned.
The first week I took physics a million years ago, we were taught to use a sliderule, an indispensable tool of the trade. When electronic calculators became affordable, they were banned in some classr More...
Because you can’t trust anyone else to do it for you.
We’re deluged with assertions on twitter, on Facebook, and on the more formal news. Whom do we believe? “The science”? Whose version? The NY Times? Fox News? The legions of fact-che More...
Public School Teachers’ Unions Are a Good Example of Why
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