Lexington, rural counties faced with marked differences in candidates for KY Senate 27 seat

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : Crain said she supports full funding for public education and instituting universal pre-kindergarten in Kentucky.
55% : West said Republican state lawmakers increased funding for public schools by hundreds of millions of dollars in the last two budgets.
53% : He said that in his opinion, lawmakers would be more inclined to boost money for education overall as they put together a funding mechanism to help parents send their kids to private school, not hurt public education.
52% : "Voting no on Amendment 2 allows us to keep taxpayer dollars in public education," Crain said. "
49% : Crain, who was on a DEI board at the UK law school, said she supports DEI programs in higher education.
47% : "The Kentucky Center for Economic Policy, which opposes the measure, said in a report that the expected source of money for private schools under Amendment 2 would be "reduced state contributions" to public education.
46% : But West said it is not a given that the legislature would reduce appropriations to public schools in order to help private schools.
45% : Opponents fear the measure would hurt state funding for public schools which serve most of the students in Kentucky, resulting in layoffs in schools.
33% : "I kind of bristle at this idea that the evil Republicans are out to destroy public education," he said.

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