Thursday, April 07, 2005

The Rally

We attended the rally at the statehouse yesterday afternoon. The passion and enthusiasm of the participants was inspiring. Several speakers explained the need for additional funding for schools and the potential impact of unfunded mandates.

It was reported that teachers from John Glenn met with and were informed by Representative Heim that he was supporting all the bills that contained unfunded mandates. We were unable to meet with the representative and could not verify that report. It is critical that you contact Representative Heim and express that he vote "no" on SB 281, SB 200, SB 231, SB 371, and SB 598. These bills contain processes for moving dollars away from public schools when increases are minimal. Please email immediately at http://www.in.gov/cgi-bin/legislative/contact/contact.pl?data=HouseHeim,Steveh17hr .

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