Grassroots Groups Press for Education Funding
Gov. Nathan Deal has proposed adding more than $300 million in education spending. But two grassroots groups, who met at the Capitol Monday, are calling for even more.
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Kristy Flowers is president of FACE It (Funding Awareness Campaign for Education) Cobb. Cobb County parents founded the group after realizing the district was running a huge deficit. Flowers said Deal’s proposed budget is a good start.
“We want our children to have more than what we had and that is what we’re trying to do, is asking them to help move our children forward and give them more than what we had when we were in grade school,” Flowers said.
FACE It Cobb partnered with nonprofit group EmpowerED Georgia for the event, which drew residents from across the state, like Dr. Mari Roberts. She’s an education professor at Clayton State University. Roberts says the state isn’t funding schools at the level it should.
“Who’s really losing out in all of this are the children,” Roberts says. “The low-income children, the children of color, the children who can least-afford this pressure, this, I don’t even know what to call it, this de-humanization. They’re the ones that receive it.”
Both EmpowerED Georgia and FACE It Cobb say they’ll also urge lawmakers to re-evaluate the state’s decades-old education funding formula.
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