The mayor says he will reach out to lawyers and hopes to have a decision to proceed with a lawsuit by the end of the next month as Worcester inches closer to taking the state to court to force an overhaul of its school funding formula.
In addition, leaders in some other cities in the region this week expressed interest in joining the proposed legal action, which so far has been publicly floated by just Worcester and Brockton.
Their aim is to get the state to finally fix its decades-old foundation budget formula, which they claim has underfunded public school systems around the state for years, even after a state Legislature-tapped special commission released a report in 2015 recommending a host of fixes to it. Their hope is that they’ll succeed just like the plaintiffs in the McDuffy v. Secretary of the Executive Office of Education did 25 years ago, which lead to sea change education reform in the state.