A growing list of communities oppose lifting the charter cap

  • Two hundred school committees have all gone on record against lifting the cap on charter schools. (Each community’s school committee has passed a resolution or issued a statement against a cap lift. The list also indicates communities in which another town body has gone on record against lifting the charter cap.) If your city or town is missing from this list, see if you can get them on board!
  • Acton-Boxborough
  • Adams-Cheshire
  • Agawam
  • Amesbury
  • Amherst
  • Andover
  • Arlington
  • Ashburnham-Westminster
  • Ashland
  • Assabet Valley Regional
  • Athol-Royalston Regional
  • Attleboro
  • Auburn
  • Ayer-Shirley Regional
  • Barnstable
  • Belchertown
  • Belmont Democratic Town Committee
  • Bellingham
  • Berkshire Hills
  • Beverly
  • Billerica
  • Boston School Committee (unanimously!), Boston City Council
  • Bourne
  • Braintree
  • Bridgewater-Raynham Regional
  • Brockton
  • Burlington
  • Cambridge School Committee,
    Cambridge City Council
  • Carver
  • Central Berkshire
  • Chelmsford
  • Chelsea, Chelsea City Council
  • Chicopee
  • Clarksburg
  • Concord
  • Conway
  • Danvers
  • Dedham
  • Deerfield
  • Deerfield Selectmen
  • Dennis
  • Dighton-Rehoboth
  • Douglas
  • Dracut
  • Duxbury
  • East Bridgewater
  • Easton
  • Easthampton City Council
  • Everett
  • Everett City Council
  • Fall River
  • Falmouth
  • Fitchburg
  • Framingham
  • Franklin
  • Freetown-Lakeville
  • Frontier Regional
  • Gardner
  • Gateway Regional
  • Georgetown
  • Grafton
  • Gil-Montague
  • Gloucester
  • Granville
  • Greater Lawrence Technical
  • Greenfield
  • Hadley
  • Hamilton-Wenham Regional
  • Hampden-Wilbraham
  • Hampshire
  • Hanover
  • Hatfield
  • Haverhill
  • Hawlemont Regional
  • Hingham
  • Holliston
  • Holyoke
  • Hull
  • Ipswich
  • King Philip Regional
  • Kingston
  • Lee
  • Leicester
  • Lenox
  • Leominster
  • Leverett
  • Lexington
  • Lincoln-Sudbury
  • Littleton
  • Longmeadow
  • Lowell City Council, Lowell School Committee
  • Ludlow
  • Lunenberg
  • Lynn City Council, Lynn School Committe
  • Lynnfield
  • Mahar Regional
  • Malden
  • Mansfield
  • Marlborough
  • Marshfield
  • Masconomet
  • Maynard
  • Medford
  • Medway
  • Melrose
  • Mendon-Upton
  • Methuen
  • Milford
  • Milton
  • Mohawk
  • Monomoy
  • Monson
  • Mount Greylock
  • Narragansett Regional School District
  • Natick
  • Needham
  • New Bedford
  • Newburyport
  • Newton
  • Norfolk
  • North Adams
  • North Attleboro
  • North Middlesex
  • North Reading
  • Northampton
  • Northbridge
  • Northeast Metro Tech
  • Norton
  • Norwood
  • Orange
  • Oxford
  • Peabody
  • Pelham
  • Pentucket Regional
  • Petersham
  • Pioneer Valley
  • Pittsfield
  • Plainville
  • Plymouth
  • Quabbin
  • Quincy, Quincy City Council
  • Randolph
  • Reading
  • Revere
  • Rockland
  • Rowe
  • Saugus
  • Savoy
  • Silver Lake
  • Smith Vocational and Agricultural High School Board of Trustees
  • Somerset
  • Southborough
  • Southern Berkshire 
  • Southwick
  • Somerville
  • South Hadley
  • Spencer-East Brookfield
  • Springfield, Springfield City Council
  • Stoneham
  • Stoughton
  • Sudbury
  • Sutton
  • Taunton School Committee
  • Taunton City Council
  • Tewksbury
  • Tolland
  • Tyngsboro
  • Upper Cape Regional Tech
  • Uxbridge
  • Wachusett
  • Wakefield
  • Walpole
  • Ware
  • Wareham
  • Waltham
  • Wayland
  • Webster
  • Westborough
  • Westfield
  • Westhampton
  • Westport
  • West Springfield
  • Weymouth
  • Whately
  • Whitman-Hanson
  • Williamsburg
  • Williamstown
  • Wilmington
  • Winchendon
  • Winchester
  • Winthrop School Committee
  • Woburn
  • Worcester School Committee,Worcester City Council

    Updated, November 8, 2016