Now is the time for lawmakers to provide relief to communities and taxpayers by adjusting state education funding annually to account for inflation.

The education funds on the governor’s chopping block are needed by our students, our schools, and our state now more than ever.

Last fall, our organization conducted an analysis that revealed a $639 million funding gap between Connecticut’s majority white school districts and all other public school districts in the state. As staggering and unconscionable as that $639 million figure is, it is an unacceptable yet unsurprising reality for tens of thousands of Connecticut students, their families, and their teachers who continue to be shortchanged and inequitably funded.