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.
Connecticut municipal leaders and educators want Gov. Ned Lamont and lawmakers to adjust the state’s 2017 fiscal guardrails next year. They say it’s needed to allow for more state money to be spent on K-12 public education.
Education advocates are calling on state lawmakers to increase funding for Connecticut school districts. They say it is necessary to help at-risk youth succeed.
A group of bipartisan leaders with the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities gathered on Thursday to call on the state to invest more in our children.
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 leaders, educators, superintendents and students from across Connecticut joined forces Thursday to call on lawmakers to invest more money in education.