KEA pushes for some kind of revenue increase

This from PolWatchers:

The Kentucky Education Association kicked off a Friday of tax and budget plan wrangling with a press conference urging lawmakers to do something -- anything -- to provide more money for schools and teachers.

Sharron Oxendine, ...KEA president, said the teacher's union was heartened by separate plans Gov. Steve Beshear and House Democrats are pushing. Both are aimed at raising between $750 million and $800 million over two years to help fill in deep gaps in Beshear's originally proposed budgets....

...Overall, KEA members have been urging lawmakers to bolster the budget during a series of "at home lobbying meetings" that so far have been held in more than 60 of the 100 House districts and about half of the 38 Senate areas.