The Globe said the quiet part out loud

 It's WAY down in this piece on teachers' salaries, but hey, they noted the fundamental inequity of funding schools locally!

Currently, about half of funding comes from local governments, and much of the rest comes from state governments, with the federal government providing little support. That means wealthier schools tend to be better funded — and they can raise additional, voluntary pools of money.

 PDF here.

That's Massachusetts in a nutshell: we have local districts that are majority local funded, whose cuts when they come are cuts of things majority state funding districts have never had.