By North Country Superintendents
As educators in this great state, we appreciate how deeply our citizens value public schools. Parents, business owners, taxpayers all agree a high-quality system of education benefits everyone. Given that broad support, North Country superintendents respectfully ask our state to take immediate steps to improve the way we pay for our schools and correct the deeply ingrained funding imbalance that threatens to erode the quality our residents expect from public schools.
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