You can skip to how to email legislators below or read for further information: Vermont's Education Crisis: Act 73 Signals a Quiet Takeover of Vermont Education (2m - bullet points) and Student Centered Education: There is a better way.
~ Proposal for 27 mega-districts with K-12 public schools in them, pulling decision-making even farther away from voters, communities, families, and students.
~ School choice ends impacting roughly 100 towns, dismantling a 150-year Vermont tradition of educational independence.
closing and consolidating small elementary schools
~ Families who once chose to live in a town based on the school will soon be limited to 27 bureaucratic regions — and will they now be told which school their child will go to.
~ There is a new Federal tax credit available January 2027 that taxpayers can avail themselves of but the Legislature wants to stop Vermont school children from receiving scholarships based on donations to receive the tax credit.
Here is how to email the House Education Committee members:
Email campaign to start on 2/20/2026
- Write one email from your personal email account. Address it as Dear House Committee Member. You only have to send one email for all committee members.
- The subject line should show your opposition to what they are planning on doing.
- Keep the body of the email as SHORT as you can. Be POLITE, even if you are very upset by this.
- Give your full name and town at the bottom of your message. This is a must.
- CC this one email to all of the legislators below:
House Education Committee members: (copy and paste in the TO section of your email)
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
The mere fact that they may get hundreds of emails just like this over the next week will have an impact.
There may need to be additional emails like this sent to other committees who are talking about education. Be sure to sign up for EdWatchVT's email list.
This method has worked well for homeschoolers in the state of Vermont. It will work well for you too! The legislators need to hear from you.
EdWatch does not write canned responses for you to copy as this needs will be more powerful for it to be in your own words.
And yes, you can contact your own legislators as well but this committee needs to hear from you specifically.
Thank you,
Retta Dunlap
Exec Director
EdWatch Vermont