Is deanna al bright a fifth grade teacher in grayson kentucky. i understand you re planning to protest at the state capitol tomorrow. tell us why you and fellow educators are upset about the changes to the pension plan? well, no one has really had a chance to thoroughly look at the pension plan, including the legislators and representatives that pass the bill thursday night. my understanding and what i watched on kut.org, which is archived, it made then a committee meeting and quickly passed to move it to the house to be voted on. and what this is is the senate bill, 151, was or is a sewer water waste bill. and they ended up putting
Extracurricular activities, humanities courses, there s a lot at stake here. even our counseling could be cut because of these fundings. and another thing is they are wanting to use some of that funding to put into charter schools. i don t know a lot about charter schools but i do know they are profitable business and i don t agree with public tax dollars going into a public business and if that the charter school closes because they start losing money, those students are thrown back into the public setting and the way i understand charter schools, they pick and choose who goes to the schools deanna obviously there s a lot of issues at stake in kentucky. we ll have to see how this sick-out plays and how the governor responds to your
Putting pension reform in that bill and no one knew it was going to be voted on that night. they met in urgency until about 10:00, passed it through the house and passed it through the senate. and to my understanding, no public input was allowed and no one knew it was coming. so that s one of our biggest things. teachers in kentucky do not receive social security, so our pension is our teacher retirement is our pension so let me ask you, governor bevin said he supports this bill. he s basically the last line of defense before it gets signed into law. he said this bill was necessary to essentially protect your pension plan. obviously you disagree with that. do you have any hope you can convince the governor to change his mind and veto the bill? i hope so.