BAD BILL FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS --xposted
This bill makes it so that school districts no longer need to abide by these standard as long as they come up with what the bill's supporters vaugly define as a "strategic plan." And if the state determines that a public school violates this new "strategic plan" the state can take it over and convert it into a charter school. This IS NOT a substitute for true standards and NO school should be allowed to lower teachers' pay, increase classroom sizes, and hire unqualified teachers just to "save money." This bill has a huge loophole for slashing teachers salaries, and it hurts the state curriculam standards that our kids need to have a sucessful education.
Unsure at this time how exactly this might impact Media Center budgets, it is critical we begin asking the questions.
If you live or teach in Rep. Coleman’s district, contact him today. It is imperative to express concerns about funding and how, if passed, this legislation could be detrimental to the funding of media centers around the state.
Mr. Alford stated that additional legislation is pending that would include a new funding cost model, but until that legislation is introduced it will not be clear how “flexible” school systems will be with the expenditure controls.
Do not delay, this legislation could have severe, negative effects on your students, your school and your media center. Contact your Representative and Senator today - say “No” to HB 1209 in its current form.
FY 09 Budget
The House Appropriations Education Subcommittee continues to work on the 2009 budget. During discussions this week, Reps. Amerson, Jones, Maxwell and Neal were supportive of taking guidelines off the spending of foreign language funds for foreign language media materials in elementary schools and putting the funds into the general QBE formula, as well as restoring media center funds for K-12 when they make their move to restore the austerity cuts.
Chairman Jones pointed out to the committee that, even with expenditure controls, media centers may not get the funds as the committee appropriates them.
Key Point: Your funding stories are working! Continue sharing them with your legislators!
Reminder: The 2009 budget has a long way to go before it becomes “the budget”. Even if the House restores austerity cuts and is able to restore Media Center funding, the Senate may change things completely.
Continue to contact your Representative and Senator regarding the budget, Media Center funding, and how media funds are allocated once your system is in control. It’s not over yet, and it’s not too late…but the clock is ticking!
To Contact Representatives and Senators
Find email addresses, phone numbers and fax numbers to all of the Representatives listed above - click here.
To find contact information for Senators - click here.
Know YOUR Legislators
To locate your Representative and Senator, click here. Enter your zip code in the top, left corner. When the next page opens, enter your address in the center of the page - your local Rep. and Senator will be appear.
This was taken from taken from http://glma.wordpress.com/2008/02/22/glma-call-to-action/ and something I'm doing at work. Thought I'd share with the rest of you. They are voting on this tommorow so tonight would be the last time you would get to share your point of view, your opinion, whatever to these people.
Unsure at this time how exactly this might impact Media Center budgets, it is critical we begin asking the questions.
If you live or teach in Rep. Coleman’s district, contact him today. It is imperative to express concerns about funding and how, if passed, this legislation could be detrimental to the funding of media centers around the state.
Mr. Alford stated that additional legislation is pending that would include a new funding cost model, but until that legislation is introduced it will not be clear how “flexible” school systems will be with the expenditure controls.
Do not delay, this legislation could have severe, negative effects on your students, your school and your media center. Contact your Representative and Senator today - say “No” to HB 1209 in its current form.
FY 09 Budget
The House Appropriations Education Subcommittee continues to work on the 2009 budget. During discussions this week, Reps. Amerson, Jones, Maxwell and Neal were supportive of taking guidelines off the spending of foreign language funds for foreign language media materials in elementary schools and putting the funds into the general QBE formula, as well as restoring media center funds for K-12 when they make their move to restore the austerity cuts.
Chairman Jones pointed out to the committee that, even with expenditure controls, media centers may not get the funds as the committee appropriates them.
Key Point: Your funding stories are working! Continue sharing them with your legislators!
Reminder: The 2009 budget has a long way to go before it becomes “the budget”. Even if the House restores austerity cuts and is able to restore Media Center funding, the Senate may change things completely.
Continue to contact your Representative and Senator regarding the budget, Media Center funding, and how media funds are allocated once your system is in control. It’s not over yet, and it’s not too late…but the clock is ticking!
To Contact Representatives and Senators
Find email addresses, phone numbers and fax numbers to all of the Representatives listed above - click here.
To find contact information for Senators - click here.
Know YOUR Legislators
To locate your Representative and Senator, click here. Enter your zip code in the top, left corner. When the next page opens, enter your address in the center of the page - your local Rep. and Senator will be appear.
This was taken from taken from http://glma.wordpress.com/2008/02/22/glma-call-to-action/ and something I'm doing at work. Thought I'd share with the rest of you. They are voting on this tommorow so tonight would be the last time you would get to share your point of view, your opinion, whatever to these people.