New Yorkers voted last week for public school budgets and board of education candidates in a year when national issues divided many local communities. Turnout was sharply up in many districts. According to the New York State School Boards Association, 99 percent of district budgets were approved, including a handful that overrode the tax cap. We speak with Executive Director Robert Schneider.
We speak with Vermont Senator Peter Welch, a member of the Judiciary Committee who says the country is nearing a constitutional crisis.
We preview Town Meeting Day in Vermont Tuesday with Middlebury College political science professor Bert Johnson, who hopes the old-fashioned tradition will continue.
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