I haven’t yet had a chance to review the Governor’s budget, but considering he proposed a couple of costly new initiatives and the overall budget for education is going down and the overall budget for non-education agencies isn’t going up very much, I’m fairly certain there are going to be some alarming cuts in there.

“No economy, no state will ever reach its full potential if the next generation is not properly prepared for the future. And the best way to prepare them is to start at the beginning,” he said.

State Superintendent of Education Joe Morton said public schools will have to accept some cuts, but the governor added money to programs that have created momentum in public education.

“The governor’s education budget outlines a way to not just remain status quo, but to continue with the great momentum we’ve had and to expand it,” Morton said.

I do applaud the governor’s efforts on expanding pre-K, I just hope it is done in the right way. An infusion of those kinds of resources too quickly can cause a “gold rush” that will not allow us to maximize the benefits of that move.

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