CT lawmakers' budget leaves out key funding boost for schools

CT lawmakers' budget leaves out key funding boost for schools

Students, teachers and school administrators were gathered at the steps of the Meriden Board of Education building Tuesday in support of an increase to Connecticut’s core school funding grant when they got some bad news from their state senator, Jan Hochadel. The legislature’s Appropriations Committee had proposed flat-funding the grant for yet another year. A wave of “boos” passed through the crowd. “Oh yeah. We need it louder!” Hochadel said. …