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Superintendent presents Chapter 70 advocacy memo arguing state funding formula is outdated
Summary
Superintendent Mark Branca shared a North Shore roundtable advocacy memo submitted to DESE that argues the Chapter 70 funding formula (designed in 1993) fails to reflect modern costs, particularly for special education and transportation.
Superintendent Mark Branca presented a Chapter 70 advocacy memo prepared by the North Shore Superintendent Roundtable and urged the committee to review it and share it with local officials. He said the memo argues the state's funding formula — designed in 1993 — is outdated and lacks transparency, and that special education remains the formula's largest structural failure.
"This formula was designed in 1993," Branca said, urging committee members to read the four-page document and noting it was submitted to the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and would be shared with state legislators and local boards. The committee endorsed the idea of broad advocacy and Branca said he would share the memo with the select board and finance committee.
