KEY ISSUE
Thanks to nearly a decade of thoughtful study and persistent broad-based organizing from across the Commonwealth, the Education Committee proposed a funding reform bill in September. It fulfills all five of the recommendations by the Foundation Budget Review Commission — including the key equity provisions — and fills the $1.5 billion hole left by decades of underinvestment.
I advocated for the bill on the Senate floor in October, and it was passed unanimously. But the bill still has a long journey to make it into law — and we must be steadfast in securing the equity provisions.
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