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At Dallas.org, someone blogged: "Idiot here! "So what can we do? Suggestions?"
Here is my response:
Dear Idiot (from a former idiot!),
Once your children are involved in this mess, you start getting to work:)) So here is what you can do:
At the last DISD board meeting, Trustee Lew Blackburn noted that he and Dr. Hinojosa had been down in Austin the previous morning, and that the legislature did not look as if they were in any hurry to remedy this situation (something to the effect of, they felt our pain, but they weren't going to do anything to make it go away).
Mr. Blackburn suggested that the thing we can do NOW that is most important is to CALL/EMAIL/MAIL GOVERNOR RICK PERRY and LT. GOVERNOR DAVID DEWHURST. One woman from the community who spoke suggested we call EVERY DAY. I love this idea. If at least half of us called one or the other of these two men for the next week everyday starting Monday, I think it would have a tremendous impact. Our POWER IS IN OUR NUMBERS. How long will it take you to make a call once a day for a week? Is that worth the education of our kids?
Remember when you call what specifically we are asking for from the legislature:
**Use the Rainy Day Fund
**Put off the new STARR achievment test until this crisis has passed
**Find other areas to cut before education
**Sign the paperwork necessary to receive the $830M in federal money waiting for us
and most important of all:
**ADDRESS THE STRUCTURAL DEFICIT!!! Until the tax reforms of 2006 are changed, Texas education will continue to be in jeopardy, not just for this biennium, but in perpetuity: if more money is going out than is coming in (the basic definition of structural deficit), these tax laws must change in order for the problem to be eradicated. We are in the current situation not because of the recession (although that certainly doesn't help matters), but because we are, as a state, continuing to use an outdated unworkable tax model.
Governor Rick Perry www.governor.state.tx.us/contact
Lt. Governor David Dewhurst www.ltgov.state.tx.us/contact
Office of the Governor Main Switchboard: 512 463 2000; fax 512 463 1849
Citizen's Opinion Hotline for Texas callers: 800 252 9600
REMIND THEM THAT OUR MEMORIES ARE LONG, AND THAT WE WILL VOTE IN THE NEXT ELECTION.
Let's show our kids how to stand up for yourself when bigger kids aren't being nice!!:) DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!
Here is my response:
Dear Idiot (from a former idiot!),
Once your children are involved in this mess, you start getting to work:)) So here is what you can do:
At the last DISD board meeting, Trustee Lew Blackburn noted that he and Dr. Hinojosa had been down in Austin the previous morning, and that the legislature did not look as if they were in any hurry to remedy this situation (something to the effect of, they felt our pain, but they weren't going to do anything to make it go away).
Mr. Blackburn suggested that the thing we can do NOW that is most important is to CALL/EMAIL/MAIL GOVERNOR RICK PERRY and LT. GOVERNOR DAVID DEWHURST. One woman from the community who spoke suggested we call EVERY DAY. I love this idea. If at least half of us called one or the other of these two men for the next week everyday starting Monday, I think it would have a tremendous impact. Our POWER IS IN OUR NUMBERS. How long will it take you to make a call once a day for a week? Is that worth the education of our kids?
Remember when you call what specifically we are asking for from the legislature:
**Use the Rainy Day Fund
**Put off the new STARR achievment test until this crisis has passed
**Find other areas to cut before education
**Sign the paperwork necessary to receive the $830M in federal money waiting for us
and most important of all:
**ADDRESS THE STRUCTURAL DEFICIT!!! Until the tax reforms of 2006 are changed, Texas education will continue to be in jeopardy, not just for this biennium, but in perpetuity: if more money is going out than is coming in (the basic definition of structural deficit), these tax laws must change in order for the problem to be eradicated. We are in the current situation not because of the recession (although that certainly doesn't help matters), but because we are, as a state, continuing to use an outdated unworkable tax model.
Governor Rick Perry www.governor.state.tx.us/contact
Lt. Governor David Dewhurst www.ltgov.state.tx.us/contact
Office of the Governor Main Switchboard: 512 463 2000; fax 512 463 1849
Citizen's Opinion Hotline for Texas callers: 800 252 9600
REMIND THEM THAT OUR MEMORIES ARE LONG, AND THAT WE WILL VOTE IN THE NEXT ELECTION.
Let's show our kids how to stand up for yourself when bigger kids aren't being nice!!:) DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!
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