Times have changed, but the formula remains stuck in 1949. The wealth disparities between neighboring towns simply did not exist at anything like their current scale. The founders of the regional school system could not have foreseen the inequity their formula has imposed on most towns today.
The prosecution offered Pulero a deal if he would plead guilty and save the Commonwealth the cost of a trial: They would accept second-degree murder. He refused. He had a plan.
