Fwd: IAGC Parents: * URGENT * contact US Senators TODAY to support Javits Gifted Student funding

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From: IAGCGifted <iagcg...@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 12:05 PM
Subject: IAGC Parents: * URGENT * contact US Senators TODAY to support Javits Gifted Student funding
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Illinois Association for Gifted Children 

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FROM: Terry Mohaupt, Parent Affiliates Chairman​

TO: Parent Affiliate and group leaders and parents

CC: IAGC Board of Directors

The

​U.S. ​

Senate Appropriations Subcommittee that handles Labor, HHS, & Education spending will be ‘marking up’ the fiscal year 2015 appropriations bill TOMORROW (Tuesday, June 10). 
 
It is important that the members of the subcommittee hear from constituents TODAY and TOMORROW MORNING about funding for the Javits Gifted and Talented Students Education Act. 
 

​Illinois Senators are 

member

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of the Subcommittee

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please contact

​their offices

 and urge the Senators to provide $15 million for the Javits Gifted Students Act for fiscal year 2015 in the Labor-HHS subcommittee markup. Calls and emails must get to the office by NOON tomorrow(Tuesday). The markup is scheduled for 2:30.
 
Democrat
Richard J. Durbin Illinois
 
Republican
Mark Kirk Illinois

Email and phone #s are below:

Dick Durbin (D)

711 Hart Senate Office Building Washington DC 20510

(202) 224-2152

Contact: www.durbin.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/contact

Mark Kirk (R)

524 Hart Senate Office Building Washington DC 20510

(202) 224-2854

Contact: www.kirk.senate.gov/?p=contact

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Thank you for acting on such short notice

​.​ Please advise other parents in your local groups to contact the Senators.

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Sincerely,

~Terry​

 

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P.S.:

NAGC and the Alabama Association for Gifted Children had an op-ed published in the Birmingham paper.

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You can see that Senator Shelby, and his role as a member of the Appropriations Committee

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was mentioned in the op-ed.

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It is linked on the IAGC website's front page Latest News: 

• "Our state and nation must stop neglecting our most talented students" by Amy Waine and Tracy L. Cross

 

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