Operation Funding Equity: Provide Supplemental Funding to PCS

There will be a Council hearing next Tuesday the 24th at 10:00 am on Mayor Gray's request to provide DCPS with $25 million in 2012 supplemental funding to cover "spending pressures" with no proportional supplemental funding for your schools. The public charter school community must fight to ensure that charter school kids get their fair share of the funding.  32,000 public charter school students need your help.

SUMMARY OF THE BUDGET INEQUITY:

Did you know the DC School Reform Act requires that students at DCPS and public charter schools be funded uniformly?

Under the law, if DCPS is given extra operating funds, then charter schools are required to get extra operating funds as well.  In the Mayor’s funding request, there are no operating funds provided for charter schools. Please contact your councilmember TODAY and ask them to stop this inequity once and for all.

We don’t oppose providing extra funding for DCPS to handle spending pressures, but charter schools also have spending pressures.  And we also want the Mayor to follow the law. We want to make sure that charter schools receive their fair share so that we too can work to have the kind of quality schools we want for all DC students.

WHAT YOU CAN DO:

Call or Email your council member. Please contact your ward council member, Chairman Brown, and the four at-large council members to let them know you want public charter schools to receive supplemental funding too.

Attend the Hearing. Tuesday, January 24^th at 10:00am at the Wilson Building, 1350 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW (Room 500). Spend lunch with us, a few minutes, hours or the entire time! (every little bit counts).  Let's fill every seat and send a message to the council! Sign up here so we know you'll be coming: http://focusdc.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=58

Tell a Friend.  Recruit DC friends, family, and coworkers to make a call, send an email, or attend the hearing and help us fight for equal funding and equal treatment for students in public charter schools. Forward this email to your lists to get the word out. Use this link: http://bit.ly/yQnfyg to share the information on your Facebook page, website or with your Twitter followers.

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