Show Your Support For Successful Schools Tuesday Night

We Want Our 59%!

This Tuesday, April 11th, BCPSS will vote on its budget for the 2006 - 2007 school year. There has been a lot of talk about the lack of support for success and the amazing amount of support that BCPSS provides for continued failure. As part of the small cadre of successful schools in BCPSS, we are planning to show up at the school board meeting asking for our 59%. If you can make it to the board meeting to stand beside us, we would welcome you. If not, think about making calls and/or other contact with the school board members and elected officials to express the frustration we all feel. The list of contacts can be found below.

If you can make it Tuesday Night, here are the details:

200 East North Ave
Meeting begins at 6:30 but sign up for public comment begins at 4:30
We are pushing the idea of the reversal of the funding allocation - currently the "system" gets 59% and schools get 41% - we want our 59%! Buttons, signs and tee-shirts that make that point will grab attention.

If you are contacting people through phone or email (or FAX), please refer to the New Song By The Numbers posting that shares just some of the success that we are fighting to keep.

As always, thank you for everything you do.