Alyson Hurshman

Charter schools already receive about $9,000 per student in state funding, and there’s no statewide evidence they outperform district public schools — making this priority hard to justify. 6,000+ public-school students are already approved to have their schools upgraded. This bill puts Charter Schools ahead of them. There is a ~$200M backlog in district school projects that need to be funded. Towns still must build and repair schools which increases your property taxes because the legislature keeps rejecting funding for public school building-aid Charter Schools should NOT cut to the front of the line for these scarce funds. Public schools first!!