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Mr. Corrente, these comments border on the bizarre. I’d remind you that the School Committee is accountable to the voters, those same voters who elect the Mayor and the Council. You use the word “squandered”. Really? You know that approximately 85% of the school budget is salaries and benefits, the largest portion of which is for teachers and support staff, and of the remaining 15%, the large majority of that is earmarked by Federal & State mandates. So please explain to me where the money is “squandered”? As you seem to conveniently ignore, the schools have been virtually level-funded over the last 8-9 years and in that time they closed multiple buildings and reduced staff to live within their means. So you want to “reverse the legislation” that makes them unaccountable? Huh? So you’re telling the voters that you don’t trust them to make their own decisions to elect their School Committee members. Nice view of the electorate you have there. As far as “get less money” that’s as sophomoric a comment that I’ve ever heard and shows that you don’t understand how education funding works at all. You are a smart man, Mr. Corrente but you just don’t know that much about schools, their funding, or their governance.

David Testa