Growing Number of Communities Pass Resolution Against Raising Massachusetts Charter School Cap

Last Updated: November 8, 2016

The following Massachusetts school committees have passed a resolution in opposition to MA Ballot Question #2, which would raise the charter school cap:

  • Acton-Boxborough
  • Acushnet
  • Adams-Cheshire
  • Agawam
  • Amesbury
  • Amherst
  • Andover
  • Arlington
  • Ashburnham-Westminster Regional
  • Ashland
  • Assabet Valley Regional 
  • Athol-Royalston Regional 
  • Attleboro
  • Auburn
  • Ayer-Shirley
  • Barnstable
  • Belchertown
  • Bellingham
  • Berkshire Hills
  • Berlin
  • Berlin-Boylston Regional
  • Beverly
  • Billerica
  • Blackstone-Millville Regional
  • Boston
  • Bourne
  • Boylston
  • Braintree 
  • Bridgewater-Raynham 
  • Brockton
  • Burlington
  • Cambridge
  • Carver
  • Central Berkshire Regional
  • Chelmsford
  • Chelsea
  • Chicopee
  • Clarksburg
  • Concord
  • Conway
  • Danvers
  • Dartmouth
  • Dedham
  • Deerfield
  • Dennis-Yarmouth
  • Dighton-Rehoboth
  • Douglas
  • Dracut
  • Duxbury
  • East Bridgewater
  • East Longmeadow
  • Easthampton
  • Easton
  • Everett
  • Fairhaven
  • Fall River
  • Falmouth
  • Fitchburg
  • Framingham
  • Franklin
  • Freetown-Lakeville Regional 
  • Frontier Regional
  • Gardner
  • Gateway Regional
  • Georgetown
  • Gill-Montague
  • Gloucester
  • Grafton
  • Granby
  • Greater Lawrence Regional Technical
  • Greenfield
  • Hadley
  • Halifax
  • Hamilton-Wenham
  • Hampden-Wilbraham
  • Hampshire
  • Hanover
  • Hatfield
  • Haverhill
  • Hawlemont Regional
  • Hingham
  • Holbrook
  • Holliston
  • Holyoke
  • Hudson
  • Hull
  • Ipswich
  • King Philip
  • Kingston
  • Lee
  • Leicester
  • Lenox
  • Leominster
  • Leverett
  • Lexington
  • Lincoln
  • Lincoln-Sudbury Regional
  • Littleton
  • Longmeadow
  • Lowell
  • Ludlow
  • Lynn
  • Lynnfield
  • Malden
  • Marlborough
  • Masconomet Regional
  • Mansfield
  • Marshfield
  • Maynard
  • Medford
  • Medway
  • Melrose
  • Mendon-Upton
  • Methuen
  • Middleborough
  • Milford
  • Millbury
  • Milton
  • Mohawk Trail Regional
  • Monomoy Regional
  • Monson
  • Mount Greylock Regional 
  • Narragansett Regional
  • Natick
  • Needham
  • Newton
  • New Bedford
  • New Salem-Wendell
  • Newburyport
  • Norfolk 
  • North Adams
  • North Attleboro
  • North Middlesex
  • North Reading
  • Northampton
  • Northborough
  • Northborough-Southborough Regional
  • Northbridge
  • Northeast Metro Tech
  • Norwood
  • Norton
  • Orange
  • Oxford
  • Peabody
  • Pelham
  • Pentucket Regional 
  • Petersham
  • Pioneer Valley Regional
  • Pittsfield
  • Plainville
  • Plymouth
  • Quabbin Regional
  • Quincy
  • Ralph C. Mahar Regional
  • Randolph
  • Revere
  • Rockland
  • Rockport
  • Rowe
  • Saugus
  • Savoy
  • Scituate
  • Shrewsbury
  • Silver Lake
  • Smith Vocational and Agriculture
  • Somerset
  • Somerset-Berkley Regional
  • Somerville
  • South Hadley
  • Southampton
  • Southborough
  • Southbridge
  • Southern Berkshire
  • Southwick-Tolland-Granville Regional
  • Spencer-East Brookfield Regional
  • Springfield
  • Stoneham
  • Stoughton 
  • Sudbury
  • Sutton
  • Taunton
  • Tewksbury 
  • Tri-County Regional
  • Triton Regional
  • Tyngsboro
  • Upper Cape Cod Tech
  • Uxbridge
  • Wachusett
  • Wakefield
  • Walpole
  • Waltham
  • Ware
  • Wareham
  • Watertown
  • Wayland
  • Webster
  • West Springfield
  • Westborough
  • Westfield
  • Westhampton
  • Westport 
  • Weymouth
  • Whately
  • Whitman-Hanson
  • Williamsburg
  • Williamstown
  • Wilmington
  • Winchendon
  • Winchester
  • Winthrop
  • Woburn
  • Worcester

 

Please Note:

While MASC supports the intent of this effort, the initiative is totally at the discretion of individual school districts.