Gov. Ned Lamont’s proposed $50.5 billion two-year state budget includes money for a Danbury charter school if that is what stakeholders decide is best for the city, a spokesman said Wednesday. That means a new public charter school proposed for Main Street in downtown Danbury appears to be a definite maybe under Lamont’s budget plan. State Sen. Julie Kushner, a Democrat and a critic of the charter school who believes it would drain money from the city’s underfunded public schools, said the governor clearly means that she and members of the city’s delegation to Hartford should decide what’s best for the city. Although questions remain about what process the charter school would follow to open on Main Street in August as the organizers plan, Esposito said the next step was clear.
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