The Vermont State Board of Education supervises, and manages the

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and the public school system. The board makes regulations governing attendance and records of attendance of all pupils; standards for student performance, adult basic education programs, approval of independent schools, disbursement of funds, and equal access to education for all

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students. The governor appoints the board with approval by the senate. The board selects the Education Commissioner. The commissioner runs a department of 200 employees. The commissioner was paid a salary of $96,907 in 2008.

Commissioners

# Raymond J. McNulty #

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2003-2009 #

Armando Vilaseca Armando Vilaseca was the former Commissioner of the Vermont Department of Education. After leaving Cuba in 1964, Vilaseca settled in West New York, New Jersey, a community with a significant Cuban American community. There he attended Memorial Hig ...

2009-

References

External links

Official website
State Board of Education

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