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30 Mayors In Massachusetts Oppose Lifting Charter Schools Cap

Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno on stage

        Thirty mayors in Massachusetts are urging a no vote on the ballot question that if approved would lift the cap on charter schools.

      The mayors opposed to Question 2 represent some of the largest school districts in the state, including Boston Mayor Marty Walsh and Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno.

       " All we ask for is equal equitable funding  because that takes away from our kids who are in need," Sarno stated.

      Question 2 would allow up to 12 new charter schools a year in Massachusetts, with most of the expansion in urban areas

    Proponents released a new television ad featuring Governor Charlie Baker.

The record-setting tenure of Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno. The 2011 tornado and its recovery that remade the largest city in Western Massachusetts. The fallout from the deadly COVID outbreak at the Holyoke Soldiers Home. Those are just a few of the thousands and thousands of stories WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill has covered for WAMC in his nearly 17 years with the station.