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Zoie Saunders

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ134088159 ↗
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Zoie Saunders is the Vermont Secretary of Education. In 2024, the Vermont Senate voted 19-9 to not confirm her as the education secretary. The governor of Vermont Phil Scott appointed her in an interim capacity to get around the rejection. In March 2025, the Vermont Senate voted 22-8 to confirm her in the role.

She is being sued for blocking a Christian school from competing in state sponsored events after it forfeited a game against a team with a trans athlete.

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This entry incorporates text from “Zoie Saunders” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.