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Monday October 24, 2011
Act Now: Urge Your Senator To Vote NO on SB1 (Voucher Bill)
Dear Friend of PCCY:
The Pennsylvania Senate Education Committee is scheduled to vote on a voucher bill tomorrow (10/25/11)! It’s called Senate Bill 1 (SB1), and it will cost hundreds of millions of dollars which we need in our public schools and it will end up providing the money to private and parochial schools. This is wrong especially considering the almost $900 million that was cut from public-education spending last year.
We already know that last year’s unprecedented budget cuts have hurt our kids’ education leading to teacher and counselor layoffs, larger class sizes, fewer electives and after school activities and schools’ delaying the purchase of text books and other supplies.
Please take a few minutes today to call 1-888-907-1485. Follow the instructions and you'll be connected to the offices of Pennsylvania’s Senators. Your message is simple:
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Please VOTE NO on any school voucher proposal;
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Vouchers do nothing to improve public schools, which serve all of our children;
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Vouchers will hurt our kids and our schools and end up supporting private and parochial schools with needed public dollars;
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Vouchers are discriminatory. Because private schools can pick and chose who they admit the children left in our public schools will be those with greatest needs for educational and support services.
Thank you,
Shanee Garner, Co-Director, Education Policy
About this E-Alert
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