Kentucky Education Association

With leaders from the state House and Senate reaching an agreement on pension reform legislation, it now appears likely the whole of both those bodies will reconvene in Frankfort for a five-day special session to consider the legislation.

"My staff and I will be working with the House and Senate leadership to finalize the details of a draft bill. Assuming that these final details are ironed out I will issue a call for a special session of the General Assembly on June 23, 2008, to quickly pass that legislation," said Governor Steve Beshear (D-Lexington) in a statement released today.

"We are appalled and indignant. We only wish the budget were a bad April Fool’s Day joke."

That was the denouncement articulated by the Kentucky Education Association (KEA) of the budget compromise passed out of conference committee this week.