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This long session budget process has finally completed. The bill is not yet law, but it will be ten days from last Friday. The delay is due to the governor refusing to sign the budget, but he is not vetoing the document. A bill automatically becomes law ten days after it is passed if the governor does not veto. Let's outline the education portion of this budget. Salaries The final budget did more than we saw in the Senate’s version of the budget, but it did fall short of

Hello Everyone! In this Issue of The Voice we have the following: President's Message Information for School Ambassadors Information...

The legislature returned last week to resume work on the state budget. It has been announced that this will be completed sometime after September 11th. We continue to meet with them to push our priorities, and will report back once the document becomes official. As a reminder, there were significant differences in pay for educators in the House and Senate budgets. These differences can be viewed in the reports given in April and May by PENC. We have met with both House and