Education stakeholders — including lawmakers, superintendents and municipal leaders — gathered Thursday to call out Gov. Ned Lamont’s administration for a lack of financial investment in K-12 education and to urge state leadership to make it a priority in the upcoming 2024 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.
A lobby group for Connecticut towns and cities announced Thursday a month-long ad campaign meant to ratchet up pressure on Gov. Ned Lamont and the legislature to accelerate increases in state education support to municipalities.
State Representative Jeff Currey discussed H.B. 5003 and the need for education funding reform with Mike Hydeck on NBC Connecticut's "Face the Facts."
While we are thankful the Committee’s proposed budget provides an increase in K-12 education funding, we are disappointed the proposal falls short of implementing H.B. 5003 — a historic education funding bill, with wide bipartisan support, which would fully fund all of Connecticut’s public school students.
After years of arguing over funding Connecticut’s Education Cost Sharing (ECS) formula, a non-profit organization warns lawmakers that failure to act this year could significantly increase local property taxes.