6-26-21
This afternoon, PFT President Jerry Jordan shared the following with PFT members:
Dear PFT Members,
Our fight for fair and equitable education funding continues. And this year's budget, finished by the State Legislature last evening, did very little to get us there. It was a woefully inadequate budget that, amidst a $10B surplus in the state's coffers, passed up this potentially once in a lifetime opportunity to make serious investment in public education.
Instead, elected officials decided to put more money in their coffers to save for a 'rainy day.' This is an abject failure, and to call