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Issue Position: Education

Issue Position

Date: Oct. 8, 2012

* Framingham and Ashland school funding has increased 148% since Tom has taken office, while the rest of the state's school funding has gone up 28%. These increases are a result of work Tom did to change the school funding formula.

* Former chair of the Ashland School Committee

* Passed bullying bill, impose stiffer penalties on school bullies and provide tools and training to school districts

To do:

* Continue to implement changes to the formula that will allow Framingham and Ashland to receive their fair share

* Conduct a new adequacy study to understand what it takes to deliver a quality education in 2012 (the last adequacy study was done in 1993).


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