Legislators and advocates call on the governor to fix school funding formula
Yehyun Kim :: ctmirror.org
Jamilah Prince-Stewart, Executive Director for FaithActs for Education, speaks at the State Capitol in Hartford. Speakers at the event asked the governor to end education discrimination against low-income children and to end the phase-in for state funding.
The push to get more school funding to the state’s most distressed communities got some prominent backers on Monday: the head of the legislature’s Black and Puerto Rican Caucus and the co-chair of the Education Committee.
“How many times do we have to come up here in the cold? It’s always in February we have to stand out here before these budgets come out. Governor Lamont, I’m looking you in the eye, I’m asking you, imploring you to please, please do what you promised. Take care of our kids,” said Rep. Geraldo Reyes, D-Waterbury, and leader of the Black and Puerto Rican Caucus.