Watertown's School Funds Would be Boosted by Millions Under Governor's Budget
The town's schools would get $1.6 million more in Chapter 70 school aid in Gov. Patrick's proposal.
Gov. Deval Patrick's Fiscal 2014 budget has some very good news for the Watertown Public Schools with school aid going up more than $1.6 million from last year. Chapter 70 school aid would increase greatly under the budget released by Gov. Patrick this week. During a visit to Watertown's Perkins School for the Blind this week, Patrick said the tax increases called for in the budget would be invested in both education and transporation. State Sen. Will Brownsberger, D-Belmont, welcomed the proposed budget in a post on his website. "The Governor, in his fiscal 2014 budget, has proposed to finally complete the education aid reform initiated in 2006. This is extremely good news for Watertown — Watertown had, for years, been badly short-…
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Vinnie Dummerino
12:14 pm on Saturday, January 26, 2013
cutting spending would mean losing the votes the gov bought over the last 6 years by shorting everyone else ...the money went someplace for the last 6 years while ed and transportation got less and less; the question is where and why. Raising taxes without spending cuts is just trying to buy more votes and payback certain supporters. Not going to help as it is not going to create new job which … more ›