“Northampton politicians made choices years ago to fund investments in education by using one-time funds, repeatedly. Now, they do not want to do this anymore, even though they still can. These politicians have also decided the people who will pay for this change in budgeting strategy will be the newly unemployed teachers and support staff, and our public school students, who are 31% low income and 40% high needs. Class sizes will approach 30 at our high school.”

Read Al Simon’s Letter to the Editor here:
https://www.gazettenet.com/Letter-to-the-editor-55399375