Over the last several days, three budget proposals have emerged that would be very detrimental to education.  Please contact your legislators TODAY and urge them to reject any spending plan that doesn’t adequately protect education. 

• Reduce funding for education by over $1 billion.  There would be no COLA. 
• Arbitrarily restrict spending on public education at a time when additional investments are needed. 
• Provide unilateral mid-year cut authority for the Governor, setting a dangerous precedent that would allow significant cuts to education funding in the middle of the school year.
• Use short-sighted and irresponsible gimmicks, manipulations and borrowing to close the deficit — ignoring the long-term consequences.    

Please invest a minute or two to let your elected officials know it is more important to pass a responsible budget than one that is more immediate.