McCourtys, Harmon wear matching shirts to support education bill  

Angelique Fiske

LIFESTYLE EDITOR, Patriots.com

Devin and Jason McCourty have extensive t-shirt collections, but when they and Duron Harmon picked out matching shirts to wear under their uniforms on July 26, there was a bigger meaning, a bigger picture.

The red shirts that read, “Fund our futures,” are yet another chapter in their activism off the field. Since the end of the 2018 season, Devin, Jason, Duron and Matthew Slater have continued to speak out on behalf of students in Massachusetts, supporting the Education PROMISE Act.

The bill, which is currently in the Commonwealth’s Joint Education Committee, aims to close the education gap between affluent and low-income school districts by updating the formula that determines funding. In 2015, the bipartisan Foundation Budget Review found that the state was underfunding its school systems by more than $1 billion annually.

“The most significant area of underinvestment was funding for low-income students — where the state’s aging formula woefully underestimated the resources necessary to give low-income students needed supports and equal opportunities,” they wrote in a Boston Globe op-ed this June.

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