Thank You From the Education Advocacy Committee:
Thank you to those parents and students who called or wrote to Michigan State to oppose cuts. In the end, it worked. We're still without a budget, but they're back at the drawing board trying to apply federal stimulus funds to reduce the cuts they had previously proposed. All of our House members, with the lone exception of Justin Amash (he represents the Caledonia area and unfortunately is on the House Ed. Committee-Republican), finally voted no on the cuts.
Call or email and thank them and encourage them to minimize the cuts as much as possible. Remind them that our children are our future. Remind them that we've been asked to meet the highest graduation requirements in the nation. Remind them that many of our high school students need additional help to meet these goals and that we cannot do that without sufficient resources.
One more thing: Please come to our Grassroots meeting at KISD, 7 p.m. Thursday, October 8 to begin planning our next steps. This budget shortfall isn't going away, and we must work collectively to find a solution.