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.
Tracy Seckler and her husband, Dr. Benjy Seckler, founded Charley’s Fund in 2004. Since that time they have raised more than $36 million to combat the leading genetic killer of boys in the world, Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.