NEA Teacher Union says call Congress, May 8, with NO TAX CUT message

[Gopher Broke]

Education Insider

Special Edition - May 6, 2003

May 8, 2003 -- Education Day

Educate Congress on Tax Cuts vs. America's Public Schools!

Across the nation, schools are suffering. Tens of thousands of education employees have received pink slips and looming state budget deficits promise more to come.

Yet Congress seems oblivious to the unfunded mandates it is imposing on our schools, to crowded classrooms, to course offerings cut, to schools in need of repair and renovation, to parents facing increased fees, and more.

The proposed tax cuts jeopardize not only critical federally-funded education programs, but also state revenue.

Advocacy groups across the country are educating Congress this week on how the proposed tax cuts affect real people in every state. On Thursday, May 8, the message is education.

Action Alert! On Thursday, May 8 send Congress a message: Do the right thing. Don't put tax breaks before the real needs of our states and our schools!

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[NetValue]

"They are cutting positions all right...janitors, teachers, paras etc. Is there one administrators position cut? No way."

If you cut the worthless administrative bureaucracy you would have enough money to run a whole separate school system operated on vouchers. It's not a question of more money, but how they are wasting what we give them already!

[hattend]

Where are the teachers making $60K a year with all that time off and excellent pension at 55? Maybe I can convince my fiance to move. She is a year-round, parochial pre-school director making $50K, pretax, after 19 years there and she isn't going to get anywhere near $39K if she retired at 55. I want to get her out of California anyway...maybe this will be an incentive.

[talleyman]

Gosh! Teachers must be really overpaid if they don't need a tax cut!

[Darksheare]

You caught that too?
Now we can tell them they don't need a pay raise next time they whine about how their pay is too low.