Confirmation hearing scheduled for Zoie Saunders as education secretary

The Vermont Senate Committee on Education will hold its confirmation hearing for Gov. Phil Scott’s pick for education secretary, Zoie Saunders, on April 23. The committee’s chair, Sen. Brian Campion, D-Bennington, initially considered holding the hearing next week, when Saunders plans to begin work. But Campion said in an interview on Thursday that the administration had requested the hearing be scheduled one week later. “Seemed a little ambitious for her to arrive, and then the next day have a hearing,” Campion told VTDigger. “It seems quite — I don’t know...