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Once again this year Mayor Gray’s proposed budget underfunds the public charter school facilities allowance. This underfunding will play havoc with charter school budgets and make it harder for charters to get bank loans to acquire and renovate school space. The D.C. Council can fix this problem by coming up $3.2 million by June 5 to include in the Fiscal Year 2013 budget.
Show your support for D.C. public charter schools by calling and emailing your school's ward councilmember and each of the at-large councilmembers, starting with Kwame Brown. Tell them that the council should fully fund the charter school facilities allowance.
Also, tell them that the Council should fix the school funding law by including amendments in the Budget Support Act requiring that all funding for public charter school and DCPS operations should flow through the Uniform Per Student Funding Formula.
Finally, we ask that you join FOCUS at the Wilson Building next Wednesday morning at 10:30 for a show of force. We need a minimum of 100 people to make an impression; 200 would be far better. We will visit every councilmember and the mayor and deputy mayor for education to urge full funding of the facilities allowance.
Please contact Roland Roebuck, our Senior Community Organizer, or our Policy & Advocacy Associate, Lauren Outlaw, at 202 387-0405 to confirm your attendance or to ask any questions.
Councilmember |
Phone Number |
Email Address |
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Chair Kwame Brown |
202 724-8032 |
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David Catania (At-Large) |
202 724-7772 |
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Phil Mendelson (At-Large) |
202 724-8064 |
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Michael A. Brown (At-Large) |
202 724-8015 |
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Vincent Orange (At-Large) |
202 724-8174 |
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Jim Graham (Ward 1) |
202 724-8181 |
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Jack Evans (Ward 2) |
202 724-8058 |
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Mary Cheh (Ward 3) |
202 724-8062 |
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Muriel Bowser (Ward 4) |
202 724-8052 |
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Kenyan McDuffie (Ward 5) |
202 724-8028 |
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Tommy Wells (Ward 6) |
202 724-8072 |
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Yvette Alexander (Ward 7) |
202 724-8068 |
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Marion Barry (Ward 8) |
202 724-8045 |