Call to Action!!!! This Monday!!!

MONDAY AT NEW SONG CENTER

New Song Community Learning Center is calling on all of our supporters to gather at noon on Monday, April 3, 2006 to hear about the outcome of our meeting with Mayor Martin O'Malley, Dr. Bonnie Copeland and Mr. Brian Morris. A committee of respected financial experts from throughout the City, who will be reviewing the BCPSS '07 Budget for potential funding sources for successful schools, will be announced at that time. The rally will be the culmination of a morning-long phone campaign to our City officials and State legislators. Our message will be:

If you are going to demand that BCPSS be given continued authority over failing schools, you must also demand that they be held accountable for sustaining successful schools like New Song Academy.

We need our public officials to not only consider the needs of the students in failing schools today, but to consider their needs upon achieving standards of success. If BCPSS can't fund New Song Academy and the other successful schools currently in the system, there is no reason to believe they will be able to fund any schools that may become successful in the future. As Peter Brunn said in his letter to the editor today, we must "connect the dots."

We will have phone lists available at New Song Center, and on our blog, on Monday, April 3, 2006 for any of you who would like to stop by and make your phone calls from the school. Our students will be encouraged by seeing you, especially since they have relinquished their first day of Spring Break to work together to keep our school open. We hope you will be able to join us for the rally at noon, too. Your strong outpouring of support is keeping our funding challenge alive in the current public school discussion. Don't stop now, we still need your help. On behalf of our community, teachers, students and parents, THANK YOU!

New Song Center
1530 Presstman Street
Baltimore, MD 21217
http://newsongacademy.blogspot.com