Superintendent of Schools v. Mayor of Leominster

Statute 1980, c. 580, commonly known as “Proposition 2Vz,” took effect on December 4, 1980.2 Sec*115tion 7 of that Act amended G. L. c, 71, § 34, the statute which had, historically, granted fiscal autonomy to school committees in municipalities other than Boston. Pirrone v. Boston, 364 Mass. 403, 406-407 (1973). Casey v. Everett, 330 Mass. 220, 222, 224 (1953). Ring v. Woburn, 311 Mass. 679, 694-695 (1942). Section 7 “‘limit [s] the amount of money required to be appropriated for public schools to that amount voted upon by the local appropriating authority.’” Massachusetts Teachers Ass’n v.…