WATERBURY, Vt. (ABC22/FOX44) - The group of 11 political and education leaders that will come up with Vermont's new school districts met for the second time Wednesday afternoon, looking at different models for how they could draw the new district lines.
One idea that dominated discussion for the second half of the Vermont School District Redistricting Task Force's meeting was a county model, simply taking the map of Vermont's 14 counties and making those the new school districts. Members of the task force debated the potential positives and negatives that could come with that.
"Hypothetically, a county map would allow for a lot more collaboration across a wider geographic area," said State Senator Martine Larocque Gulick, a Democrat from Chittenden County. "I keep hearing over and over a