The 200 parents who traveled with UFT members to Albany that day added their voices to the call
for more state funding for schools.
The school district is in contract negotiations with its labor groups, and UTLA asked the school board to join its
call for more state funding as part of its bargaining proposal.
She spoke at a press conference Monday organized by the Alliance for Quality Education, an activist group that
pushes for more state funding for schools and has said that the current funding distribution favors wealthy, white districts over poor areas with people of color.
The press conference was organized by the Alliance for Quality Education, a group that Nixon has long been associated with that
advocates for more state funding for schools.
A spokesperson for the deputy prime minister made clear the government could not see a
case for more state funding «at a time when budgets are being squeezed and economic recovery remains the highest priority».
«As chair of the Assembly education committee, I know our majority and Speaker Carl E. Heastie have consistently
fought for more state funding so that all of our students can finally receive the sound, basic education they desperately deserve.»
Yelyzaveta Kalinichenko, a special education teacher at Wadleigh Secondary School for the Performing and Visual Arts, and 13 fellow educators from District 3 squeezed into the office of state Sen. Liz Krueger to
appeal for more state funding for New York City public schools.
In his proposal, Governor Brown would fund school districts based on the number of its students and the level of challenges faced by its students, meaning districts like LAUSD with higher enrollments of low - income students and English language learners would be
eligible for more state funding.
Liz Newlin of the School Nurse Association of North Carolina discusses the growing demands on public school nurses and the need for more state funding
Republican State Senator Jim Seward is turning to town leaders in a push to
for more state funding for
PIVOT members are also meeting with Assembly woman Addie Russell to push
for more state funding to fight heroin addiction.
Speakers urged teachers to make their voices heard, calling
for more state funding and help with health insurance costs for both active and retired teachers a day before the Texas Legislature convened for a special session in Austin.