While Connecticut ranks among states with the highest levels of education spending, most of that does not derive from the state itself but from municipal budgets.
Mayors, clergy and school district leaders mobilized in Hartford Thursday to urge Gov. Ned Lamont and the General Assembly to fast-track state education funding in an attempt to scale down public schools’ impending fall from a fiscal cliff carved by the expiration of federal COVID relief.
Local leaders from across Connecticut are teaming up to publicly apply pressure to Gov. Ned Lamont and the General Assembly to accelerate funding to the state’s public education system.
A new push is underway to get more state money allocated for urban school districts. Thursday morning, the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities unveiled its ad campaign in support of a bill lawmakers are currently considering.
The Connecticut Conference of Municipalities and half dozen other advocacy groups announced the launch a 30-day, $100,000 television, print and digital advertising campaign aimed at persuading state leaders to make the change in the final stretch of the legislative session.
Municipal officials, educators and students from around the state converged on the State Capitol Thursday, demanding more funding for public schools and higher education at a time when the distance between poor cities and wealthy suburbs combined with regressive property taxes is widening the gap in learning and success.