While, along with concerns about child care funding, some critics of the state spending plan by House Republicans believe Kentucky teachers should get a direct pay raise from lawmakers.

Todd County state Representative Jason Petrie, the House budget chairman, says more education dollars are flowing to local school districts.

So that they can make those salary bumps.

We are trying to place focus as best we can on entry level positions, not all the way up the scale.

Everyone's important, don't get me wrong.

But right now we have particular concerns about movement in other states, border states that would really primarily affect those 023025 teacher.

And that's where I'm hoping a lot of districts put a lot of thought of what they're doing.

Now you also asked what about allocating money for teacher raises?

We've continued to push money into the formula and other and transportation rose so that local districts can make that decision based on local circumstances.

However, put that off to the side for a moment and say that you wanted to just designate a certain amount of money that would fulfill a certain percentage increase across the entirety of the Commonwealth.

If you try to put that through sync, you're going to end up with no district getting what they thought they were going to get.

And many districts would say if you gave a percentage raise, they know that through the distribution formula they would have to come up with local state dollars and probably fairly substantial in order to hit the percentage raise that we might mandate.

So we'll take a deep dive into the education portion of the proposed two year budget and we'll talk about the budget in its entirety by House Republicans with a panel of advocacy groups and a lawmaker tonight on Kentucky tonight at eight Eastern, seven Central right here on KUTV.