The budget cuts have been reversed. They heard us loud and clear. Keep watching to ensure the funding actually hits our classrooms.
March 25, 2012
Final supporters
We the undersigned call on lawmakers to end their attack on teachers in Virginia and do what is right for Virginia’s school children.
During this legislative session, lawmakers passed a tax credit bill creating a new entitlement for private schools at taxpayer expense. They approved cuts in teachers’ retirement benefits and tried, without success, to make it easier to fire veteran teachers with no reason given.
These attacks come as Virginia has fallen to 41st in the nation in class size and state per-pupil funding of public schools dropped below the level five years ago. We should be applauding the many accomplishments of Virginia’s teachers, not targeting them with demoralizing and unfounded assaults.
We call on members of the Executive and Legislative branches of Virginia government to cease their attacks on our education professionals and to invest in today’s students, who will become tomorrow’s workers in a global economy. And we ask them to begin now by investing in a manner that appropriately reflects the high value of K-12 education.
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Updates
March 19, 2012
Twenty-five hundred signatures. Lawmakers cannot ignore this much longer.
Reached 2,500 supporters
March 18, 2012
March 18, 2012
The momentum is undeniable. Lawmakers are starting to hear us.
March 16, 2012
100 signatures reached. People are clearly tired of these attacks on our schools.
Reached 1,000 supporters
March 15, 2012
Reached 100 supporters
March 14, 2012
6 Comments
Public schools are falling apart while they hand out tax credits to private schools. This is total nonsense.
Pay our teachers what they actually deserve! They deal with so much already without the state trying to take away their benefits.
leave the teachers alone. they work harder than anyone in that state capitol.
Schools need more funding not less. Keep teachers on the job
My daughter has 30 kids in her class this year. How is that supposed to work?? Stop the cuts now.
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The budget cuts have been reversed. They heard us loud and clear. Keep watching to ensure the funding actually hits our classrooms.
March 25, 2012
Final supporters
We the undersigned call on lawmakers to end their attack on teachers in Virginia and do what is right for Virginia’s school children.
During this legislative session, lawmakers passed a tax credit bill creating a new entitlement for private schools at taxpayer expense. They approved cuts in teachers’ retirement benefits and tried, without success, to make it easier to fire veteran teachers with no reason given.
These attacks come as Virginia has fallen to 41st in the nation in class size and state per-pupil funding of public schools dropped below the level five years ago. We should be applauding the many accomplishments of Virginia’s teachers, not targeting them with demoralizing and unfounded assaults.
We call on members of the Executive and Legislative branches of Virginia government to cease their attacks on our education professionals and to invest in today’s students, who will become tomorrow’s workers in a global economy. And we ask them to begin now by investing in a manner that appropriately reflects the high value of K-12 education.
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Updates
March 19, 2012
Twenty-five hundred signatures. Lawmakers cannot ignore this much longer.
Reached 2,500 supporters
March 18, 2012
March 18, 2012
The momentum is undeniable. Lawmakers are starting to hear us.
March 16, 2012
100 signatures reached. People are clearly tired of these attacks on our schools.
Reached 1,000 supporters
March 15, 2012
Reached 100 supporters
March 14, 2012
6 Comments
41st in the nation is embarrassing. Virginia needs to get it together and stop treating education like an afterthought.
Public schools are falling apart while they hand out tax credits to private schools. This is total nonsense.
Pay our teachers what they actually deserve! They deal with so much already without the state trying to take away their benefits.
leave the teachers alone. they work harder than anyone in that state capitol.
Schools need more funding not less. Keep teachers on the job
My daughter has 30 kids in her class this year. How is that supposed to work?? Stop the cuts now.
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41st in the nation is embarrassing. Virginia needs to get it together and stop treating education like an afterthought.