Posted: 08/29/2012 02:00:00 AM EDT
Wednesday August 29, 2012
MONTPELIER (AP) -- A Vermont committee appointed to conduct a national search for an education secretary is holding its first meeting.
The committee was formed after a law was passed that gives the governor the authority to make that appointment. It also elevates the state’s chief education official from a commissioner to a Cabinet-level secretary. In the past, the commissioner was appointed by a state board of education.
The search committee is meeting Tuesday at 3:30 p.m. at the Vermont Department of Education to discuss its plans.
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