Representative Jason Lewis (D-Winchester), fourth from left, testified
with House colleagues, from left, Jay Kaufman (D-Lexington), Tackey
Chan (D-Quincy), Paul Mark (D-Peru), Lori Ehrlich (D-Marblehead) and
Keiko Orrall (R-Lakeville) in favor of legislation that would create a
commission to review the Foundation Budget.
Photo by Jean Conley
D ozens of education activists and policy experts turned out at a recent State House
hearing to voice enthusiastic support
for “An Act to Revive the Foundation
Budget Review Commission.”
The hearing room overflowed
with educators, public policy experts
and school business administrators
waiting their turn to speak in front
of the joint Education Committee,
chaired by Representative Alice Peisch
(D-Wellesley) and Senator Sonia
Chang-Diaz (D-Boston). The legislation
— House 457 and Senate 207 —is
sponsored by the co-chairs. It would
provide the first systematic review of
the Foundation Budget formula since
the Education Reform Act of 1993.
The Foundation Budget was
established to ensure that each
community has the funding it needs
to educate its students adequately,
The speakers who followed
also spoke of the need for regular
review. Representative Jason
Lewis (D-Winchester) stood with
five House colleagues, Democrats
and Republicans alike, in favor
of the legislation as he testified
that “Massachusetts led the nation
in 1993 with ed reform, and the
Foundation Budget once served our
Commonwealth very well.” But
“many, many years have passed,” he
said, and “that is no longer the case.”
Lewis testified with Representatives
Jay Kaufman (D-Lexington), Tackey
Chan (D-Quincy), Paul Mark (D-Peru),
Lori Ehrlich (D-Marblehead) and Keiko
Orrall (R-Lakeville). Representatives
Paul Brodeur (D-Melrose) and Timothy
Madden (D-Nantucket) and Senator
John Keenan (D-Quincy), all of whom
are co-sponsors of the legislation, also
testified, and many other co-sponsors
The Foundation Budget
was established to
ensure that each
community has the
funding it needs to
educate its students
adequately, regardless
of how wealthy the
city or town might be.
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