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Gerry-Lynn Darcy

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Jun 5, 2009, 9:21:48 AM6/5/09

Members and Friends of Stand for Children,

Now is the last time to take action to influence the state's FY 10 budget to benefit our schools and our children. The differences between the House and Senate budgets are being hashed out in Conference Committee. Please take 2 minutes to e-mail the members of this committee (including our own Representative Barbara L'Italien). The link is below. Thanks!

Heather McNeil
Massachusetts Leadership Network Representative
Stand for Children
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Gerry-Lynn Darcy
Team Leader
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Paula Karl
Team Leader
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From: mai...@stand.org
Subject: Last Chance - Speak Up for Kids Now
To: h_mc...@hotmail.com
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 19:01:34 -0400

>> Last chance - speak up for kids now!

Dear friend,

Send an email now!

The national recession has hit home and everything is at stake for our children next school year.

Reach out.
That’s why we ask you to take action TODAY on behalf of Massachusetts’ one million school children. Help keep teachers in classrooms, and prevent the deep budget cuts that sentence tens of thousands of children annually to academic failure.

Speak up.
It will take less than two minutes to send an email to the members of the Conference Committee at www.stand.org/ma/actionalert. This is our last chance to influence the state’s FY2010 budget. Senators Panagiotakos, Brewer, and Knapik, and Representatives Charley Murphy, L’Italien, and deMacedo must shortly make final budget decisions that affect all Massachusetts classrooms. They need to hear your urgent plea to:

Protect children by providing sufficient state-based revenue to support:

Chapter 70 and local aid
Special Education circuit breaker reimbursements
Existing expanded learning time (ELT) programs
Existing pre-Kindergarten and all-day Kindergarten programs

Provide communities with local revenue and cost-saving tools:

Local hotel/motel and meals tax options
Elimination of the telecom tax loophole
Money-saving municipal health benefit reforms

The action you take today will help protect our children, their schools, and our communities. Please take just two minutes right now to send an urgent message to Beacon Hill at www.stand.org/ma/actionalert. Then forward this email to everyone you know – friends, neighbors, colleagues - urging them to take action, too.

Standing with you for children,


Leslie Nicholson Massachusetts Executive Director	Deborah Brown Massachusetts Policy Director

Stand for Children

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