Vermont Legislature SmartTranscripts:

[Seth Bongartz (Chair)]: We're gonna come around. Oh, you got I just want to announce the meeting first. We are live. Oriented. So we're live. This is, well, I guess a small version of the Tenant Education Committee. We can't make any big decisions. On September 8, we're at CDU and we're going to start the day. By the way, Senator Heffernan is on his way. He'll be here in a couple of minutes and join us so we'll have something, I don't know, but it's a gorbun off. Anyway, no decisions today, we're taking testimony. So what we've been doing, just for people who are watching on YouTube who might not have seen any of the previous visits to schools, is we're trying to take advantage of the time before the session starts to actually just get out and visit some schools. We've tried to pick schools that are different. We started in Canaan. So here we are, bookending in a way. One of the smallest high schools in Vermont, there's a school that's small by necessity, it's Canaan. And now we're at CBU, one of the larger high schools in the state. And what we're really trying to do is, using the theme of providing excellent educational opportunity for every Vermont child, what are different schools doing, different districts doing, because it's actually a district question. And what are the challenges, what are the opportunities, what are they actually doing to provide that level of service, excellent educational opportunity for every Vermont child. And you've heard great testimony, I'll just leave it at that. I know we're behind schedule, I'll truncate it. I'll repeat this when we get to the public forum anyway, but why don't we, we're just going have our visit framed, I think, now. And so you for the record, why why don't you all introduce yourselves? We're actually struggling with audio. Oh, okay.