This Budget Blows - Educate Our State

This Budget Blows - Educate Our State:

This Budget Blows

The Message:
Don’t Blow It!  Pass a budget that fully funds education NOW.

Our California leaders are on the verge of blowing it, and our children are going to pay the price.  The current budget proposal depends on revenue generated from a not-yet-passed November initiative -- but even Kindergartners know the school year starts months before that. Our schools can’t pay for teachers and programs with money they don’t have and might never get.  Parents demand that the legislature do their job and create a balanced budget with no cuts to education. To read about how California education spending compares to other states (hint - we are at or near bottom), please click here.

The Launch: 

Thursday, March 15, 2012, all across California

On March 15^th, the notorious “Pink Slip” day, thousands of teachers will get lay-off notices. In protest of these and other devastating cuts, parents and students will be blowing bubbles to tell our state leaders, “Don’t blow it! You have the power to fully fund education now!”  These launch events will publicize the need for parents to take action by sending letters to state legislators through Educate Our State’s website.

The Action: 
What Can You Do?

1.  Organize a Bubble Blowing Event - click here to register or RSVP for an event!  Click here to download a toolkit which includes flyers to distribute, a check list and general instructions, a press release, a media advisory, outreach information, information on how to get personalized bubbles, and more!
2.  Send letters to state legislators by clicking here.
3.  Upload photos of your kids blowing bubbles so we can deliver them to Sacramento (like the saying goes - a picture is worth a thousand signatures!)  And don’t forget to change your Facebook profile picture to one of you blowing bubbles!
4. Write a Letter to the Editor - VERY simple, just click here!
5.  Email 10 friends and ask them to take action too!