“I think we do need more money,” Dillon replied when asked about her thoughts on education funding and a state legislator’s role in helping improve public education in New Haven. “We need more funding for schools. “We have to increase the funding” to what it would have reached with inflation, he said, which would be around $15,000. Sabin doubled down on the state legislature providing “guidance and transparency around long-term financial planning for school districts.” He said that school districts spend too much on buses in part because “we prioritize sports over education.”