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Recorded votes · every legislative district · Vermont · 2013–2026

The Education Docket

Between 2013 and 2025, Vermont's students went from nine-tenths of a grade level above the national average to half a grade below it. In the same years the legislature rewrote how schools are funded, governed, and measured — eighteen acts, ending with the 2026 transformation-implementation law. This page is the record: what passed, how every legislative district's seats voted, and who held those seats the whole time. Whether the changes helped, hurt, or merely accompanied the fall is the question the record exists to ask.

1 · The era in one line

Vermont's test results placed on the national (NAEP) scale — grade levels above or below the U.S. norm — with each education act pinned to the year it passed.

Grade levels above (+) or below (−) the U.S. norm

Source: Stanford Education Data Archive (grades 3–8, math + reading). The line breaks over 2020–21: statewide testing was cancelled, so those years are unknown, not zero. Acts are pinned by year of passage; an act's effects, if any, arrive later.

2 · Your seats' record

Pick a House and a Senate district. Every act, with the seat's recorded vote and the members who cast it. The VOICE stamp means the chamber passed it without a recorded vote — no member positions exist. The green rule beside a seat means the same member cast the vote above and below it.

YEA all members present voted yes NAY all voted no SPLIT 2–1 a multi-member district divided VOICE no recorded positions ABSENT no member voted same member, vote to vote

3 · The transformation votes, in their words

The era's two defining Senate votes, most recent first: the 2026 implementation law (Act 170, 27–2) and the 2025 transformation itself (Act 73, 17–12 — the narrowest education vote of the era). Every quote verified against its source.

2026 — Act 170, the implementation: 27–2

2025 — Act 73, the transformation: 17–12

4 · Who stayed

Members of the current legislature who have held their seat continuously since January 2013 — present for every vote on this page. Everyone else arrived after the era began.

5 · Every district, every vote

The full matrices, one panel per chamber and map. District labels are not comparable across the 2022 redistricting — the maps are different geographies that sometimes reuse a name.

Provenance. Member-level votes are the Vermont General Assembly's own roll-call records, joined to districts and parties by member ID, never by name. Every tally on this page reproduces the official count exactly. A presiding member recorded as “Not Voting” (usually the Speaker) counts toward no side. Acts that passed on a voice vote have no member positions — that is a fact about the record, not a gap in it.

Districts were redrawn in 2022. Votes through 2022 use the prior map (104 House districts, 13 Senate); votes from 2023 use the current one (109 House, 16 Senate). Where both maps use the same name, the geography still differs.

Member links. A dotted underline under a name means the member still serves; the link is their official legislative email, taken from their own page on legislature.vermont.gov — never guessed. Unlinked names are members who have left office, or (rarely) a sitting member whose page lists no address.

What this page does not claim. The outcome line and the acts are shown together because they share the years — not because the record can assign cause. Laws phase in slowly, and much else changed in these years, including a pandemic. The record shows who voted for what, and when; the rest is a question.