School superintendents are praising certain parts of the House budget, like fully funding student transportation, but expressing concern about other parts like seek funding under the budget, seek funding or the base per pupil funding will increase by 4% in 2025 and 2% in 2026.

One superintendent we spoke with today said those increases are not enough to give teachers and her district an adequate raise or attract new teachers.

She's hoping lawmakers will reconsider those amounts.

For the last 16 years, the seek funding is relatively flat and most increases in funding are from the local portion of how the formula works.

So we need seek to be leveled out in order to make it more competitive and to increase our our base and starting teacher salary 45,000 and remain competitive with surrounding districts.

We need to raise our base by 9.2%.

However, we can only afford 10% using what the $4,368 fiscal difference in each.

There's almost $4 billion in reserve and there are some additional funding opportunities out there for the General Assembly to consider to support.

See?

Go back.

Look at the amounts, consider adjustments and change the base.

Change that proposal to 4500 end to end in fiscal year 25 and 4800 in fiscal year 26 and then continue that increase at $300 each year.

And then our district will be at where we need to be with inflation cost.

And we're not asking for handouts.

We're just asking for hands up.

You know, we're going to we're going to definitely put the money to use in the best way possible, being fiscally responsible, but investing in our teachers.

Now, you'll hear more from Kentucky superintendents as they react to the state budget next week on Kentucky Edition.