Our speaker, Dr. James Roberts, talked about the funding crisis for the K-12 public schools throughout the state. Funding is the joint responsibility of the state and the locality. While the state budget has increased 57.2% from 2008-2010 until 2018-2020, the state funding for schools during that period has declined 4.1%. This has negatively impacted our public schools. Pictured with Dr. Roberts are Carlisle Wroton (l) and club president Lorna Cochrane (c).