Fair Funding Delegates Meeting
January 22, 2014 / O-U BOCES
“Advocacy Blitz Week”
Education Advocacy Made Easy
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BeforeBlitz Week, schedule a meeting with your legislators(s)
to take place after Blitz Week.
Monday: E-mail Monday- email
Send an email to your district’s legislators
Tuesday: Tweetin’ Tuesday- tweets
Tweet your district’s legislators - #ENDtheGEAnow
Wednesday: Mid-week Mailing- postcard
Sign and mail a postcard to your district’s legislators
Thursday:Petition Thursday–online petition
Post and send out this link to online petition:
[need link to include]
Friday: Facebook Friday
Share a story about something your district has lost – post it on your legislator’s page,
SED page, your district page, etc.
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Monday: E-mail Monday- email
Send an email to your district’s legislators
COPY, PASTE & PERSONALIZE THIS MESSAGE:
Dear ______,
I am writing to you on behalf of the ______School District. Our district is facing a funding crisis. Our students are faced with elimination of classes that may cause them to lose their constitutional right to a basic education! We need your help now.
The current school aid formula continues to hurt school districts like ______. Our district has lost millions in aid over the last four years. Almost all of this lost school aid is due to the Gap Elimination Adjustment.
The Governor has told school districts to reduce expenses and use reserves, while keeping within the state-imposed tax levy limit. Our school district has done just as he’s instructed, shrinking staff size and cutting educational programs.
We have arrived at a place where ‘doing more with less’ is no longer an acceptable option. There is simply no further room to cut our school district’s budget and still be able to meet the common core learning standards and maintain the high education standards that are a hallmark of the ______School District.
We share a common desire for our students to graduate college career ready and to be successful in a competitive and diverse global workplace. We are grateful for the support you have demonstrated to education and to our school district. But we need more.
The current school aid formula does not provide enough support to ______and other similar school districts. Please fight to remove the Gap Elimination Adjustment immediately! Thank you for your consideration.
Sincerely,
______
Email Addresses:
NYS Assemblypeople:
1)Assemblyman James Skoufis
(Districts: Chester, Cornwall, Goshen, Highland Falls, Minisink,
Monroe-Woodbury, Washingtonville)
2)Assemblywoman Aileen Gunther
(Districts: Middletown, Eldred, Fallsburg, Liberty, Livingston Manner, Monticello, Roscoe, Sullivan West)
3)Assemblyman Frank Skartados
(Districts: Newburgh)
4)Assemblywoman Claudia Tenney
(Districts: Valley Central, Tri-Valley)
NYS Senators:
1)Senator William J. Larkin, Jr.
(Districts: Chester, Cornwall, Highland Falls, Monroe-Woodbury, Newburgh, Valley Central, Washingtonville)
2)Senator John J. Bonacic
(Districts: Florida, Goshen, Greenwood Lake, Middletown, Minisink, Pine Bush, Port Jervis, Tuxedo, Warwick, Eldred, Fallsburg, Liberty, Livingston Manner, Monticello, Roscoe, Sullivan West, Tri-Valley)
Tuesday: Tweetin’ Tuesday- tweets
Tweet your district’s legislators - #EndtheGEAnow
Tweet this to your NYS Assemblyperson and your NYS Senator:
Fairly Fund education so we can keep ______
(insert an issue facing your school district, such as; full-day kindergarten, athletics, AP Courses, art, music, band, drama, etc.)
or
END the GEA now!
Twitter accounts:
NYS Assemblypeople:
5)Assemblyman James Skoufis - @JamesSkoufis
(Districts: Chester, Cornwall, Goshen, Highland Falls, Minisink,
Monroe-Woodbury, Washingtonville)
6)Assemblywoman Aileen Gunther– add Twitter info.
(Districts: Middletown, Eldred, Fallsburg, Liberty, Livingston Manner, Monticello, Roscoe, Sullivan West)
7)Assemblyman Frank Skartados– add Twitter info.
(Districts: Newburgh)
8)Assemblywoman Claudia Tenney– add Twitter info.
(Districts: Valley Central, Tri-Valley)
NYS Senators:
3)Senator William J. Larkin, Jr.– add Twitter info.
(Districts: Chester, Cornwall, Highland Falls, Monroe-Woodbury, Newburgh, Valley Central, Washingtonville)
4)Senator John J. Bonacic– add Twitter info.
(Districts: Florida, Goshen, Greenwood Lake, Middletown, Minisink, Pine Bush, Port Jervis, Tuxedo, Warwick, Eldred, Fallsburg, Liberty, Livingston Manner, Monticello, Roscoe, Sullivan West, Tri-Valley)
5) Wednesday: Mid-week Mailing - postcard
Sign and mail a postcard to your district’s legislators
- This postcard needs to be modified for delegates in ALL region districts
- Are the statistics just for Washingtonville?
- Should Larkin be the recipient or left blank for ALL users to personalize?
- Note – the artwork doesn’t currently appear correctly in this document – need to make changes