Advocacy- Join the Cause

As the crisis continues - budget reductions we’re experiencing are the deepest cuts the state has ever inflicted upon public schools, including the Great Depression – the PTA Advocacy group takes on an even greater role.  The Advocacy Group and Legislative Reps on each campus help send letters and emails to state and federal lawmakers, write letters to editors and more to make sure parents’ voices and opinions on education funding are heard.  They need your help! 

For further information or to join the Advocacy Group email list, please contact Karen Komatinsky, Meadows Leg Rep.

Action Items

• Explore the MBEF web site.
• Explore requirement for our schools:
  • California Content Standards http://www.cde.ca.gov/be/st/ss/index.asp
  • Testing Information http://www.cde.ca.gov/ta/
    
    
• Our California Representatives:
  • Assemblymember Ted Lieu http://democrats.assembly.ca.gov/members/a53/
  • Senator Jenny Oropeza http://dist28.casen.govoffice.com/
    
    
• Our Congressional Representatives:
  • Congresswoman Jane Harman http://www.house.gov/harman/ 
  • Senator Barbara Boxer http://boxer.senate.gov/ 
  • Senator Dianne Feinstein http://feinstein.senate.gov/public/ 
    
    

• Our California Government:

  • Governor http://www.gov.ca.gov

  •  Senate http://www.senate.ca.gov

  • Assembly http://www.asm.ca.gov

  •  California Department of Education (State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O’Connell) http://www.cde.ca.gov

  • Office of the Secretary of Education Dr. Glen Thomas (appointed by the Governor) http://www.ose.ca.gov
    
    

• Our Federal Government:

  • The White House http://www.whitehouse.gov/

  •  Senate http://www.senate.gov/

  •  House of Representatives http://www.house.gov/

 

 To compare school districts: http://www.cde.ca.gov/ds/ 

• Be aware that financial data does not really compare apples to apples, e.g., local funding includes passthrough monies for ASB.

•  DataQuest and Ed-Data are both very useful sites

• Most recent data will be from 2007-08 (before all the cuts).

• Also EdSource is a useful site, http://www.edsource.org/home.html
  

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