Charter school expansion unlikely to come up, DeLeo says

BOSTON – With Memorial Day weekend around the corner and just two full months of formal sessions left for the Massachusetts Legislature, Speaker Robert DeLeo, who controls the agenda in the state House of Representatives, on Wednesday questioned the propriety of expending time and effort trying to pass a bill expanding the number of charter schools. The Winthrop Democrat said he wasn't "holding out a lot of hope" for movement on charter schools given the likelihood, as he sees it, that ballot p

BOSTON – With Memorial Day weekend around the corner and just two full months of formal sessions left for the Massachusetts Legislature, Speaker Robert DeLeo, who controls the agenda in the state House of Representatives, on Wednesday questioned the propriety of expending time and effort trying to pass a bill expanding the number of charter schools. The Winthrop Democrat said he wasn't "holding out a lot of hope" for movement on charter schools given the likelihood, as he sees it, that ballot p…