Editorial in this morning’s Valley News, highlights the great rehabilitation work being done across Vermont by employees of the DOC’s Community High School Program. Once again, this program is on some lawmaker’s list of potential cuts , even though there are no actual savings to the General Fund, as the program receives its funding from the state’s Education Fund.
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Every year, the VSEA Awards & Scholarship Committee solicits scholarship applications from VSEA members and their spouses, dependents and domestic partners. The 2017 scholarship applications are now available online, and VSEA students who are seeking financial assistance this year in the pursuit of post-secondary educational goals can download one here.
Deadline For Applications Is May 8, 2017!
One of the giant pitfalls to privatizing state-run services is that Vermont and other states must depend on the private company to install the software necessary to safely secure its online functions. VTDigger reports yesterday that a third-party, private, for-profit vendor called America’s Joblink Alliance–which operates a nationwide web-based database called Joblink- was recently hacked. Vermont is one of 10 states using Joblink.