Kitty Boitnott was president of the Virginia Education Association, an organization of about 60,000 public school teachers, from 2008 to 2012..
Kitty BoitnottPublic education has been permanently cut "by $1.6 billion through changes in the Standards of Quality funding formula."
Salaries for Virginia’s teachers are below the national average.
Teachers "are working their third consecutive year -- some longer than that -- without salary increases."