Who we are.
This effort is being led by four people, with large amounts of additional support from residents of our communities:
Doug Selwyn (Greenfield, MA): Doug Selwyn taught at K-12 public schools from 1985 until 2000 and then at university as a professor of education until he retired in 2017. He is the chair of the Franklin County Continuing the Political Revolution education task force.
Cathleen Mitchell (Amherst, MA): Cathleen has a background in data management for youth development nonprofit organizations. She has been an advocate for school quality, equity and funding, both when she lived in New Jersey, and now in Amherst, where she has lived for the past two years. She is the parent of two children in the Amherst public schools.
Jesus Leyva (North Adams, MA): Jesus is a civic-minded North Adams resident and a longtime observer of the local budget process, both when he lived in Northampton for 10 year and Greenfield where he had lived for 8 years.
Meg Robbins (Northampton, MA): A longtime former teacher at several different western Mass school districts, Meg Robbins worked for some two decades as a school-change coach. She has four grandchildren in the Northampton school district.
Additional support
Greenfield resident Dave Jackson lent his expertise to collate the funding data to analyze and compare sending tuition data between different public school districts.
Greenfield resident Keat Teoh created and edited the slideshow on the information page in the “about state school funding” section. Graphs in the slideshow are from the Mass Budget and Policy center’s 2019 presentation: (Education Funding in Massachusetts: Where Do We Stand?)
MASS Promise to Invest: School Funding for Every Child 