YOUR CHILD'S EDUCATION IS UNDER ATTACK!
HERE’S THE THREAT:
Your child will be one in a classroom of forty...minimum
Electives will be eliminated districtwide; Fine Arts, AP/Honors, and Driver's Education.
Your child's future will be in jeopardy.
1. CALL your legislators at 800-995-9080
2. WRITE a letter to the editor at
- letters@rgj.com
- letters@reviewjournal.com
- mike.campbell@lasvegassun.com
3. WRITE a letter/email to your Governor, Senators, and Legislators
- Check out the 'Who to Contact' page
- Visit: http://www.capwiz.com/nea/nv/state/main/?state=NV
- Visit: http://cc-nsc.com/?page_id=201
4. PASS this information along to your friends and family.
What you can say...
- A quality education provides opportunity for our kids and is the only way we will build a strong economy in the future.
- Nevada has underfunded education for years, and already made enormous cuts in the last two years.
- Now the governor’s budget proposes more than half a billion in NEW cuts, including huge reductions to teacher pay & benefits.
- Yes, we need reform and some cuts, but we will only provide stable funding and position Nevada for success if we implement a broad-based business tax.
- Legislators need to set their politics aside, and do what’s right for the future of the state.
- The state budget shouldn’t be balanced on the backs of the children.
- Nevada is already ranked 50th out of 50 states in education. How can we improve when we're cutting funding in half?
- We cannot afford cuts that will dash the dreams of countless American students, put additional strain on state budgets already cut to the bone, and stall the engine that drives our economy.
- Congress should be standing up for our children and rejecting dangerous choices that threaten their future.
- Governor Sandoval called for a shared sacrifice in order to balance the state budget and yet we fail to see where his “shared sacrifice” involves cuts to essential education programs that help those students most in need.
- If the children are really the priority, the governor should be looking to find ways to generate revenue for our schools.
- There’s no shared sacrifice here; it’s all being forced on Nevada’s educators and kids.
- These proposed bills are direct attacks on the students and educators of Nevada.
- The budget is going to require revenue increases.
- Mining made $10 billion in profits last year and only paid half of one percent in taxes. Removing two thirds of mining's deductions would completely solve the budget problem.
- We need a better alternative to cuts alone which will decimate education, social services and health services.
- Relying on cuts alone will hurt families and students that are already struggling to stay afloat.
- To be positioned for future job opportunities we need a increased revenue and a concerted reinvestment in education.
- Taxes that are expiring this year will create an additional hole of $640 million to our state budget. Extending these taxes would go a long way toward preventing an even larger education budget shortfall
- The current proposed cuts and past cuts are compounding the challenges that the Nevada education system faces.
- Describe how previous education budget cuts affected your quality of education or access to education.
- Describe the human impacts of prior funding cuts to yourself or to people you know.
- Fewer teachers [HMS (losing 20%), Iverson (31%) & LVHS (8%)]
- Fewer Counselors, Special Education Facilitators, IT Specialists, Literacy Specialists, English Language Learner Specialists
- 40+ kids in each classroom
- 50% cut in supply budgets = Fewer instructional materials
- Teacher pay is being reduced from contracted levels making it more difficult to retain and recruit good employees
- Proposed per child spending $2,235 below the national average
- Elective classes such as; Foreign Language, Band, Choir, Orchestra, Theater, Art, Computers, and others are being eliminated throughout the district.
- At LVHS: Theater, French, and Driver’s Education
Even after these concessions -- 2,500 staff positions eliminated and a shortfall of $69 million
Protect your children. Protect their future.
