The Save Our Public Schools Campaign was a main focus at the MTA summer conference held at UMASS Amherst. Massachusetts loses over 409,609,299 a year to charter schools. (for a detailed spreadsheet that includes data on district enrollment, charter enrollment, charter enrollment and the percentage of a districts budget that is allocated to charter schools, go to mass teacher.org/charter data Specifically Haverhill loses 2,807,927 to charter schools. Please vote NO on #2 on November 8th. We don’t want to allow the state to approve 12 new Commonwealth charter schools every year forever, eventually draining billions of dollars from our schools and destabilizing our public education system. Please say no on question 2. We don’t want the current cap lifted! Charter schools are divisive, creating a two-track system described by the NAACP as “separate and unequal.” They typically underserve English language learners and special needs students, leaving the public schools with fewer resources to educate a higher need population. Would you like more information? Go to SaveOurPublicSchoolsMA.com