SALT LAKE CITY?Educators plan no job actions this session and they will be battling not for significant improvements but just to hold their own.

The $1.7 billion education budget already has taken a $52 million hit and the educators will be fighting not only against more cuts but against tuition tax credits, which they say would eat into public education’s budget.

“We’re just going to keep talking about the importance of our children,” said Susan Dayton, Utah PTA president. “While that’s the kind of a bleeding-heart thing they hate to hear, the bottom line is: As legislators, it is their responsibility to see the children in Utah have an adequate education.”