Contact your legislator today!
Please contact your legislator (follow links below) and tell them cuts totaling nearly a half a billion dollars to our schools are irresponsible and devastating to school districts that passed their budgets in June with the expectation there would be no reduction in the per-pupil foundation grant.
The budget formula being considered today would reduce per-pupil funding by $110 (roughly over $2 million for Grand Rapids Public Schools!) and eliminate funding for virtually all early childhood education and other essential programs for children. These cuts could mean the loss of more than 500 classroom teachers in Kent County alone.
Pick up the phone. Send an e-mail. Tell them to maintain funding for public education to ensure our long-term economic recovery by producing the graduates Michigan needs to build a new future.
Click on the links below for:
The House of Representatives http://house.michigan.gov/find_a_rep.asp (your Rep is either Robert Dean -east side or Roy Schmidt -west side)
The Senate http://senate.michigan.gov/FindYourSenator/michiganfys.asp?lookup (Bill Hardiman)
Governor Granholm http://www.michigan.gov/gov/0,1607,7-168-21995---,00.html