Charter backers in Senate agree with Rosenberg’s bleak outlook

BOSTON – Senate President Stanley Rosenberg touched a nerve on Monday when he painted a bleak picture of the prospect of advancing a bill to increase the number of charter schools through the Senate this year, but his read of fellow senators jibes with what supporters of expansion are hearing from sympathetic Senate members. Rosenberg described the possibility of the Senate acting on charter school legislation as "very much an uphill battle," and asserted that in his home district constituents

BOSTON – Senate President Stanley Rosenberg touched a nerve on Monday when he painted a bleak picture of the prospect of advancing a bill to increase the number of charter schools through the Senate this year, but his read of fellow senators jibes with what supporters of expansion are hearing from sympathetic Senate members. Rosenberg described the possibility of the Senate acting on charter school legislation as "very much an uphill battle," and asserted that in his home district constituents…