State Superintendent of Schools Tom Luna had this reaction this morning to the public school budget set by JFAC: "It's considerably better than what we were anticipating and talking about before the Legislature came to town, but it's still the third year in a row where schools are going to receive less money."

Luna added, "It's moving us away from one-time money that we've been living on the past couple of years as part of our ongoing funding. I think it's important that we're making steps to get public education back on long-term funding and not just every year trying to rob this fund or that fund for one-time money to prop up the budget. This gets us closer to that."