2005 Budget Crisis General
Information Summary
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The
Legislature has reconvened and
Governor Schwarzenegger has proposed
his 2005-06 budget.
The last four budgets have cut
billions from education programs and
the corresponding local cuts are
devastating.
While
we recognize that the state's budget
deficit presents the Governor and
Legislature with very difficult fiscal
decisions, our children's education
and their future should not be
penalized.
Please
follow the link and complete the form to tell your
legislators that education is your top
priority and urge them to fund it as
such.
Feel free to make your own
edits and personalize the letter.
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voice will be heard!
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Interactive Letter
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interactive letter to your
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Sample Text of Interactive Letter Opposing Budget
Cuts
Subject: Support Public Education -
Oppose Education Cuts
Dear [ Decision Maker ] ,
As the debate continues over the
proposed 2005-06 budget, I urge you to
oppose cuts to education, keep faith
with the voter-enacted Proposition 98
minimum guarantee for education, and
keep the promise made last year to
protect school funding.
Last year's budget agreement
underfunded the Proposition 98
guarantee for schools by $2 billion,
with the promise that no more cuts
would be made next year and that, when
the state's fiscal condition gets
better, the $2 billion would
eventually be repaid.
Instead, you are now being asked to
make even deeper cuts to education and
permanently erase additional billions
in state debt owed to schools. That
will mean laying off teachers, cutting
essential science, arts, and physical
education classes, crowding more kids
into classrooms, and closing the doors
of many schools.
In short, it would cement our fate
as one of the most underfunded school
systems in the nation.
Please keep the promise to our
children. Our schools are already
starved, yet adequate resources are
needed to attain the high educational
standards that our children deserve.
Sincerely,
[Your Name]
[Your Address]
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your representatives automatically,
please follow this link.
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