Senate working committee on a charter bill

Yesterday, Senate President Stan Rosenberg announced that he was appointing a group of senators to work on a charter school bill. The group is Senators Chang-Diaz, Jehlen (chair and vice-chair of education, respectively), Wolf, and Spilka (chair of Ways and Means). He said:

.@SenStan "The focus of the discussion is the reform of #CharterSchools." #mapoli

— Mara Dolan (@MaraDolan) January 20, 2016

He also said he was only taking this up because of the Great Schools MA ballot initiative. Read more here.