Educators to protest state funding cuts

Members of Georgia Association of Educators chapters from across the state, and their supporters, are expected to converge on the state Capitol building this afternoon, to tell lawmakers that enough is enough with funding cuts to education.

The statewide educators group will hold a rally at 1 p.m., today (Saturday), on the Capitol steps facing Washington Street in Atlanta, to protest further cuts to education. Public education, at the kindergarten-through-12th-grade and post-secondary levels, is in the same situation most state agencies are in. As the economy struggles and state revenues dwindle, the state has had to cut back on spending.