If Lowell is your home, this is your place

The time has come to make the Chapter 70 funding formula MORE progressive because its not FAIR or EQUAL. More money and aid needs to be given to the truly actual and absolute cost of educating low-income students, as well as special education students that have high and great needs, because the poorer cities and towns account for the highest costs of educating these needy and disadvantaged students. Eliminating the minimum aid to wealthy school districts is the urgent solution needed to ensure that state education funding FAIRLY and EQUALLY aligns with the actual and real school district needs rather than guaranteed minimum aid for the wealthy school districts. In 2019, (Mussotte v. Peyser), Parents from several districts (including Chelsea, Chicopee, and Fall River) sued the state alleging that the funding formula’s failure to provide adequate resources in low-income districts violated the state constitution's education and equal rights clauses. The local State Representatives and State Senator must and need to aggressively advocate by citing and leveraging (Mussotte v. Peyser). They can argue that "minimum aid" for wealthy districts creates an "unreasonable, wealth-based inequity" that prevents the state from meeting its constitutional duty to provide a level playing field for poor and greatly disadvantaged students. One of the saddest and most depressing movies I’ve ever watched was THE TOWN. But, one of the best lines in the movie was the line delivered by FBI Special Agent Adam Frawley during an investigation scene in the movie which was, "This is the not fucking around crew’’! That’s EXACTLY the kind of State Representatives & State Senators we need to elect!!!