Fair Funding Delegates Meeting
January 22, 2014 / O-U BOCES
“Advocacy Blitz Week”
Education Advocacy Made Easy
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 Before Blitz Week, schedule a meeting with your legislators(s)
to take place after Blitz Week.
 Monday: E-mail Monday - email
Send an email to your district’s legislators
 Tuesday: Tweetin’ Tuesday - tweets
Tweet your district’s legislators - #ENDtheGEAnow
 Wednesday: Mid-week Mailing - postcard
Sign and mail a postcard to your district’s legislators
 Thursday: Petition Thursday – online petition
Post and send out this link to online petition:
[need link to include]
 Friday: Facebook Friday
Share a story about something your district has lost – post it on your legislator’s page,
SED page, your district page, etc.
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 Monday: E-mail Monday - email
Send an email to your district’s legislators
COPY, PASTE & PERSONALIZE THIS MESSAGE:
Dear ___________________,
I am writing to you on behalf of the _______________________School District. Our district is
facing a funding crisis. Our students are faced with elimination of classes that may cause them to
lose their constitutional right to a basic education! We need your help now.
The current school aid formula continues to hurt school districts like ___________________. Our
district has lost millions in aid over the last four years. Almost all of this lost school aid is due to
the Gap Elimination Adjustment.
The Governor has told school districts to reduce expenses and use reserves, while keeping within
the state-imposed tax levy limit. Our school district has done just as he’s instructed, shrinking
staff size and cutting educational programs.
We have arrived at a place where ‘doing more with less’ is no longer an acceptable option. There
is simply no further room to cut our school district’s budget and still be able to meet the common
core learning standards and maintain the high education standards that are a hallmark of the
______________________ School District.
We share a common desire for our students to graduate college career ready and to be
successful in a competitive and diverse global workplace. We are grateful for the support you
have demonstrated to education and to our school district. But we need more.
The current school aid formula does not provide enough support to __________________ and
other similar school districts. Please fight to remove the Gap Elimination Adjustment
immediately! Thank you for your consideration.
Sincerely,
_________________________________________________________
Email Addresses:
NYS Assemblypeople:
1) Assemblyman James Skoufis
SkoufisJ@assembly.state.ny.us
(Districts: Chester, Cornwall, Goshen, Highland Falls, Minisink,
Monroe-Woodbury, Washingtonville)
2) Assemblywoman Aileen Gunther
GuntheA@assembly.state.ny.us
(Districts: Middletown, Eldred, Fallsburg, Liberty, Livingston Manner, Monticello, Roscoe,
Sullivan West)
3) Assemblyman Frank Skartados
skartados@assembly.state.ny.us
(Districts: Newburgh)
4) Assemblywoman Claudia Tenney
tenneyc@assembly.state.ny.us
(Districts: Valley Central, Tri-Valley)
NYS Senators:
1) Senator William J. Larkin, Jr.
larkin@senate.state.ny.us
(Districts: Chester, Cornwall, Highland Falls, Monroe-Woodbury, Newburgh, Valley Central,
Washingtonville)
2) Senator John J. Bonacic
bonacic@nysenate.gov
(Districts: Florida, Goshen, Greenwood Lake, Middletown, Minisink, Pine Bush, Port Jervis,
Tuxedo, Warwick, Eldred, Fallsburg, Liberty, Livingston Manner, Monticello, Roscoe, Sullivan
West, Tri-Valley)
 Tuesday: Tweetin’ Tuesday - tweets
Tweet your district’s legislators - #EndtheGEAnow
Tweet this to your NYS Assemblyperson and your NYS Senator:
Fairly Fund education so we can keep ___________
(insert an issue facing your school district, such as; full-day kindergarten, athletics, AP Courses, art,
music, band, drama, etc.)
or
END the GEA now!
Twitter accounts:
NYS Assemblypeople:
5) Assemblyman James Skoufis - @JamesSkoufis
(Districts: Chester, Cornwall, Goshen, Highland Falls, Minisink,
Monroe-Woodbury, Washingtonville)
6) Assemblywoman Aileen Gunther – add Twitter info.
(Districts: Middletown, Eldred, Fallsburg, Liberty, Livingston Manner, Monticello, Roscoe,
Sullivan West)
7) Assemblyman Frank Skartados – add Twitter info.
(Districts: Newburgh)
8) Assemblywoman Claudia Tenney – add Twitter info.
(Districts: Valley Central, Tri-Valley)
NYS Senators:
3) Senator William J. Larkin, Jr. – add Twitter info.
(Districts: Chester, Cornwall, Highland Falls, Monroe-Woodbury, Newburgh, Valley Central,
Washingtonville)
4) Senator John J. Bonacic – add Twitter info.
(Districts: Florida, Goshen, Greenwood Lake, Middletown, Minisink, Pine Bush, Port Jervis,
Tuxedo, Warwick, Eldred, Fallsburg, Liberty, Livingston Manner, Monticello, Roscoe, Sullivan
West, Tri-Valley)
5)
 Wednesday: Mid-week Mailing - postcard
Sign and mail a postcard to your district’s legislators
- This postcard needs to be modified for delegates in ALL region districts
- Are the statistics just for Washingtonville?
- Should Larkin be the recipient or left blank for ALL users to personalize?
- Note – the artwork doesn’t currently appear correctly in this document – need to make changes
FAIR FUNDING IN EDUCATION!
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 New York Schools are facing a financial crisis! The
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Washingtonville Central School District needs your help in
advocating for our students in the district and throughout the state!
 Help us end the GAP ELIMINATION ADJUSTMENT in Education Funding!
$2.1 Billion
Cut 2010-2011
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Complete the attached postcard, add postage, and drop it in the mail to:
Senator William J. Larkin, 1093 Little Britain Road, New Windsor, NY 12553
FAIR FUN
or send him an e-mail at larkin@senate.state.ny.us
 To learn more about the Washingtonville Central School Budget, and the
-Impact
- - - of- -the- GAP
- - -Elimination
- - - - -Adjustment
- - - - - -on- our
- -students,
- - - - -please
- - -visit
- -our
-------------------Dear Senator Larkin,
District’s website at: www.ws.k12.ny.us
I ____________________________, as your constituent in the Washingtonville Central
School District, am greatly alarmed by the Gap Elimination in New York State’s Educational
Funding and the negative impact it is having upon our students and our school district.
Please help us end the Gap Elimination Adjustment! How can we expect our student’s to
be College and Career ready with less funding? Thank you in advance for your support!
FROM:_______________________
ADDRESS:_____________________
_____________________________
A Total of
Name:__________________________________________
$7.0 Billion Cut
from NY Education
Signature:_______________________________________
Funding
Date:___________________Town:_________________________________
2010-2013
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$2.1 Billion
$2.3 Billion
$2.6 Billion
Cut 2012Cut 2010-2011
Cut 20112013
2012
TO
FAIR FUNDING IN EDUCA