The Senate's version of the two-year spending plan would have withheld $1.1 billion from the Kentucky Teachers Retirement System, but House members on the panel balked at that proposal.

Area superintendents gathered at Ohio Valley Educational Cooperative in Shelbyville as part of a broader push by the Kentucky Association of School Superintendents to release its priorities for the 2020 legislative session, during which lawmakers will be tasked with writing the next two-year budget.