MIDNIGHT RIDE TO SACRAMENTO: School workers will board buses to capital to urge legislators to maintain tax revenues to stop budget cuts to education!
SEIU LOCAL 99 PRESS RELEASE (FROM THE BILOXI, GULFPORT & SOUTH MISSISSIPPI SUN-HERALD) | HTTP://BIT.LY/MKD7VH
LOS ANGELES, June 2, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following release is being issued by SEIU Local 99:
WHAT: Just days before California's June 15 budget deadline, cafeteria workers, classroom aides, school janitors, child care providers and community college employees will rally, board a convoy of buses and travel all night to Sacramento to urge legislators to support existing tax revenues to stop even more cuts to education.
WHY: Over the past three years $20 billion has been cut from California's schools and community colleges, severely impacting student programs and services. And tens of thousands of young children have been impacted by more than $1 billion in cuts to child care during the last couple of years.
Education workers will spend all day Tuesday, June 7, visiting legislators and urging them to support Governor Brown's proposal to repay schools money owed under Proposition 98 and voting to maintain existing tax revenues.
Under Governor Brown's "May Revise" budget proposal, K-12 schools and community colleges would receive $3 billion of the $6.6 billion in increased state revenue. For