MASS Promise to Invest: School Funding for Every Child

Updates and News

  • Representative Gomez files House Bill 4439

    Representative Gomez (D – 2nd Hampshire) has filed house bill 4439 to support the requests of the school committees of Amherst-Pelham Regional, Amherst, Northampton, Greenfield, South Hadley AND now Easthampton to address the municipal cost impact of charter school public funding. Representative Sabadosa (D – 1st Hampshire) has co-sponsored the bill. On behalf of the…

  • South Hadley endorses advocacy efforts

    South Hadley School Committee voted in late December of last year to endorse Mass Promise to Invest’s education funding advocacy which seeks for the Commonwealth to provide a targeted underwriting of sending tuition assessments to support low and moderate income school districts. They join Amherst, Amherst-Pelham, Greenfield and Northampton School committee and the Northampton City…

  • First endorsements on funding advocacy

    The Northampton City Council’s unanimous endorsement, via resolution on October 1st, requesting the Commonwealth take greater responsibility for the municipal cost impact of charter school and school choice sending tuition programs. The following week, Greenfield School Committee and Northampton School Committees both unanimously endorsed public petitions asking the state to consider the same funding advocacy.…

  • Campaign for Mass Promise to Invest underway

    Amherst, Greenfield and Northampton have started circulating petitions in support of requesting underwriting of charter school and school choice sending tuition for school districts! Greenfield’s Petition: https://www.change.org/p/for-the-commonwealth-to-increase-state-aid-to-the-greenfield-public-schools-by-4-million Petition for Amherst-Pelham Regional School District: http://tiny.cc/ssmlzz Petition for Northampton: http://tiny.cc/mm9mzz All three school committees have resolutions before their school committee appearing on their October agendas in support…