Session May Wrap Up Today

Indications are that the special session could wrap up today with a quick agreement on the budget- balancing bill and perhaps action on the incentive and bridge's legislation. Anything can happen but there is a lot of agreement on these items and the slots bill went down in committee yesterday, thereby removing the most contentious and time consuming piece of the agenda.

Though the Coalition would have liked to have seen this special session move ahead on Better Schools for Kentucky's students - in the final analysis though, we believe that the session will be seen as a very important step forward on ensuring that Kentucky children are attending adequate schools. Quite simply - the genie is out of the bottle. The Kentucky public is now more aware than ever before of the awful condition of certain schools, which the Kentucky Department of Education calls "deteriorated."

The opportunity to continue to move toward a solution for these schools and the students that attend them is before us. The Coalition intends to continue to advocate in the coming months on their behalf.