The choice in this year’s presidential election is tying many voters in knots—it’s unethical versus unthinkable, as a friend of mine put it. But Massachusetts citizens are facing a decision that’s not nearly as difficult. It’s a no-brainer: Whether to allow the state’s high-performing, immensely popular, mission-driven, public charter schools—now capped at 120 statewide—to replicate and expand. That’s the issue in the state’s second ballot measure, and the obvious answer is yes.
Yet here we are, less than a week from the election, with Question 2 slated to affect the fates of 30,000 low-income children who desperately want the education that Massachusetts charter schools have to offer, and we observe the new liberal lion of the Senate, Elizabeth Warren, conspicuously siding with its opponents.
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