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Rep. Grijalva hosts education roundtable at Roskruge K-8 school

Speaking with teachers, administrators, staff about impact of potential federal education spending cuts
Posted at 5:52 PM, Jan 24, 2024
and last updated 2024-01-24 19:54:15-05

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — Representative Raúl Grijalva hosted an education round table Wednesday, at the Roskruge Bilingual Magnet K-8 school, talking with teachers, administrators and other staff about the potential impacts of proposed cuts to the federal government's education budget.

"We want to get the perspective of educators, classroom people, administrators, people that work in our public schools," Grijalva said.

The federal government's 2024 Fiscal Budget should have been finalized around September 2023, but congress has pushed the deadline three times now, with stopgap spending bills.

The national debt once again takes center stage as many republican lawmakers call for major spending cuts. That includes around $64 billion to education funds nationwide, according to Grijalva.

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Jeff Rosenfield joined KGUN 9 in July of 2022. He has a background in writing, as well as photography and other visual mediums. He graduated from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism & Mass Communication at the Arizona State University in May of 2022.