“Mindless, grinding cuts, year after year, are as suicidal as overspending . . . Yes, ‘budget shortfalls.’ Yes, ‘sunsetting pandemic funds.’ Yes, inflation . . . we can either muster the vision and tenacity and stomach to plan for it — with innovative new public-investment funds, with creative and surgical approaches to tax policy, with a more granular look at our city budgets — or we can bean-count and bond-monger our way into educational, and then literal, impoverishment.”

Read Scott Brown’s Letter to the Editor here:
https://www.gazettenet.com/Letter-Road-to-ruin-for-Northampton-schools-55165352