The School District Redistricting Task Force, created by the Legislature earlier this year and charged with delivering up to three proposed district maps for the legislature to consider in 2026, is narrowing in on some tangible options as they approach their final stretch. They’ve had a tough assignment, but under the leadership of co-Chairs Sen. Martine Gulick (D-Chittenden Central) and Rep. Edye Graning (D-Jericho), the task force has made steady progress and stayed focused on the work as they wade through the complicated tangle of Vermont’s school governance and geographic boundaries. Our current system is less a design and more an accumulation shaped by old laws, local votes, political bargains, and whatever got grandfathered in along the way. The result is a landscape that defies easy

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