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Who Stands Up For Children?
By Wisconsin School Administrators Alliance staff | October 25, 2016
As November 8th inches closer, we know that the stakes in the 2016 elections are enormous. Given the state’s sluggish economic growth, prospects for significant new investments in public education look unlikely. After the elections, the battle for limited budget funds will be fierce.
This past legislative session, we won some great victories, and we suffered some gut-wrenching defeats. Through it all, we discovered who was willing to stand up for Wisconsin school children when the going got tough.
Who Stood Up For Children When:
- Lawmakers froze revenue caps for the first time in Wisconsin history. The SAA did!
- Lawmakers forwarded school accountability legislation that threatened to punish children in low-performing school districts. The SAA did!
- Lawmakers continued to develop education policy based on ideology and not on what the evidence showed would move the needle for kids. The SAA did!
- Lawmakers attempted to restrict a community’s ability to go to referendum to maintain education opportunities for children. The SAA did!
And it didn’t always make us very popular inside the State Capitol.
Thank you … But We Must Do More
I want to thank you all for using your relationships with your legislators to lobby on behalf of the children in your schools. Once again, the SAA has proven that it is one of the most effective grassroots lobbying organizations in the state.
But that’s not enough anymore. Increasingly, our political adversaries are stronger, better organized, more numerous and equipped with bigger checkbooks than ever before. Vital resources for Wisconsin school children and the adoption of evidence-based education policy hangs in the balance.
The Stakes Are Too High
We have a lot of work to do. And our first job is to use the limited days remaining to help reelect our “friends” in the 2016 elections. Shortly thereafter we anticipate that privatization advocates will back a strong challenger in the April 2017 election for State Superintendent. As you can see, the stakes are simply too high to sit on the sidelines.
Support for SAA PAC is critical to our continued efforts to “stand up for children” in the State Capitol. If you are interested in supporting SAA PAC, simply click here to make an online donation or here to mail a check.
Please note, the Wisconsin Elections Commission advises members to make online donations from a personal computer and not on school servers.
Thank you for your support and for your continued efforts on behalf of Wisconsin school children. If you have any questions, please contact me at (608) 242-1370 or john.forester@wsaa.org.
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