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.
Education advocates and a bipartisan group of legislators assembled in a packed room in the Legislative Office Building in Hartford this afternoon for a press conference arguing against proposed budget cuts to K-12 education in the state.
“Inequitable.” That’s the word that various education stakeholders used while describing Gov. Ned Lamont’s proposed budget, which was released on Feb. 7.
Supporters of K-12 education and early childhood education funding claimed Thursday that Gov. Ned Lamont is trying to pit them against each other in a budget fight.
Democratic and Republican lawmakers, as well as students, educators, advocates and community leaders, united Thursday against a proposal from Gov. Ned Lamont to redirect money earmarked for K-12 education.
Hundreds of educators, legislators, students, child care workers and various community organizations packed into a room at the State Capitol on Thursday, decrying the governor’s plan to shift millions of dollars away from the education budget for child care programs.