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Keep Budget Issues in Front of Legislators, Public
By Wisconsin School Administrators Alliance staff | April 1, 2013
Many SAA members have asked for suggestions on how to keep the private school voucher and school funding issues in front of their legislators and their constituents for the next 10-12 weeks of the budget battle. There are many ways to do it, but I wanted to share just two ideas with the SAA membership today.
First of all, district administrators and board presidents should agree to place “State Budget Update” on every board meeting agenda from now until the end of June. This will provide you with an opportunity to keep the board up-to-date on budget developments and provide the local press with an opportunity to report on the discussion and keep your community updated as well.
Secondly, every time you see a newspaper article supporting our positions on school funding, vouchers or other budget issues, simply copy and send to your legislators. You could simply say something like, “This article speaks to the issues we discussed earlier. I thought you would like to see it. Thanks for your continued efforts on behalf of all of us in your district.”
If you haven’t already used it, here is a great editorial from the Appleton Post Crescent from about a week ago.
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