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My Turn: Should the state fund ‘the school,’ and not ‘the student’?

At the Sept. 10 Pioneer Valley Regional School District School Committee meeting, the superintendent argued that Massachusetts’ Chapter 70 formula is flawed because it funds “the student” rather than “the school” as a unit, and a school’s real costs — staffing, heating, building upkeep — don’t shrink with a smaller student body, so the state […]

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