Murphy Among Gwinnett School Leaders Fighting Federal Budget Cuts
At a national conference this week, District III Rep. Mary Kay Murphy and other school district leaders are hoping to protect education programs from across-the-board federal budget cuts, known as sequestration.
Two Gwinnett County Board of Education members are among those in Washington D.C. this week to help protect school programs from "across-the board" federal budget cuts. District III Rep. Mary Kay Murphy and Carole Boyce, school board chairwoman and District I representative, are present at the National School Boards Association’s (NSBA) 40th annual Federal Relations Network Conference. The three-day conference ends Jan. 29. Along with Boyce and Murphy, some 700 school board and state school boards association leaders are meeting with members of Congress on Tuesday. They are hoping to protect education programs from across-the-board budget cuts, known as sequestration, according to a press release from NSBA. According to the NSBA, the …
