LEGISLATIVE ALERT

We all know that next year’s budget will require tough choices.  But we need to seize the opportunity to do something brave and rare – advocate to put the next generation above the next election by fully protecting funding for education and children.

I ask you to please do the following three things:

• Contact your elected representative and ask them to provide additional stable revenues in the 2010-11 state budget to invest in children and in California’s future.  Letters for our local representatives can be found HERE, just print out, sign and mail.  To find contact information for other districts go to http://192.234.213.69/amapsearch/framepage.asp
• Support legislation to lower the threshold for passage of both the California state budget and revenue measures in the California Legislature, as well as local school parcel taxes, from the current two-thirds to a 55 percent vote or a simple majority.  California State PTA supports the “Local Control of Local Classrooms Funding Act” and is running a petition drive.  To sign a petition, go to www.improvedschoolfunding.com.
• Please visit the California State PTA Website – www.capta.org – for more information and additional sample letters.

We really can’t race to the top in education if we sink to the bottom in our investment in children.  Thank you for your help!

Letter to The Honorable Nathan Fletcher

Letter to The Honorable Dennis Hollingsworth

Letter to The Honorable Mark Wyland