Starting in Fiscal 2002, the state moved away from reliance on the statutory Chapter 70 formula, distributing education aid based on annually changing formulas written into outside Section 3 of …
Local Aid Policy
Education Aid in the Financial Crunch
During the financial crunch, the state abandoned some formula elements that were designed to better match aid to community ability to pay. The result over the past four years has …
What’s wrong with Chapter 70?
The three pages linked to at the bottom of this page explore the implementation of the education aid reforms of 2006 through the financial crunch and consider alternative implementations for …
Federal Reserve Bank Local Aid Proposal
An economist at the Federal Reserve bank of Boston has recently been doing work on the relative need for local aid of communities. Bo Zhao‘s work was the subject of …
Presentation to the Arlington Budget and Revenue Task Force.
Arlington has lost aid, but is still getting more aid than most comparable communities.
Local Aid — Chapter 70 Comparison
The chapter 70 formula is shaped first by the constitutional mandate to equalize educational opportunity. So, the communities with lowest property wealth and incomes receive the greatest aid. Additionally, since …