Baker’s budget proposal will include changes to education funding formula

The proposal speaks to the importance and the urgency around climate change mitigation, said Eileen McAnneny, president of the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation. But that its champion is Baker, a Republican who has signed but generally not proposed tax hikes in the past, signals an approach to starting conversations about revenue “that we didn’t see in the first term, for sure,” she said. “It’s definitely new ground,” said McAnneny, who cautioned that there are several unresolved issues, including whether the tax raises sufficient revenue. And, she added: “Will the Legislature go along with it?”