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Budget Alert: Your Response Needed ASAP!
By Wisconsin School Administrators Alliance staff | May 24, 2013
SAA Members:
Please watch this important 5 minute video alert on late breaking state budget developments. Portions of the video alert, including legislator contact information, appear below in text form.
The Joint Finance Committee (JFC) plans to vote on K-12 budget issues (including school funding, voucher expansion, special needs vouchers, and charter school provisions) on Wednesday, May 29th.
The feedback I am receiving inside the Capitol clearly indicates that SAA pressure is having an impact on this budget process. And I implore you to act once again on behalf of the children you serve.
The Legislative Alert I am issuing today is the most important, and has the most urgency, of any alert I have issued in the 12 years I have served as your lobbyist.
I urge every single SAA member to contact the following legislators before Wednesday. Now, those of you comfortable with contacting these legislative offices via phone, I encourage you to do so. Those of you more comfortable with email, go for it.
In addition to your legislators, please contact:
(608) 266-9171
Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald
(608) 266-5660
Joint Finance Co-Chair Representative John Nygren
(608) 266-2343
Joint Finance Co-Chair Alberta Darling
(608) 266-5830
(608) 266-8530
(608) 266-0751
For your convenience in contacting your own legislators, I have provided links to the Senate Directory, the Assembly Directory as well as Who Are My Legislators.
There is no need to engage in debate, simply encourage each of these legislators to:
- Support a revenue cap per pupil increase of at least $200 in each year of the biennium.
- Support removing all private school voucher expansion proposals (including special needs vouchers) from the budget.
- Support removing all charter school proposals from the budget.
I’m so proud of all of you for the battle we have waged against extremely powerful adversaries. It’s been a very long fight. Let’s put an exclamation point on it. I know you are busy, but I need you to make these contacts by day’s end on Tuesday.
This is for all the marbles. Let’s fight for everything that is good in public education. Let’s fight for all the reasons we made education our life’s work. But, most importantly, let’s fight for the futures of the children we serve.
Let’s get it done! Thank you.
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