marquettepto: What Families can Do Right Now to Help SBCSC and our students

What Families can Do Right Now to Help SBCSC and our students: our voices count, and count MORE than school officials’ voices!

Call or Write your STATE and FEDERAL legislators! Find them here: http://district.iga.in.gov/DistrictLookup

Most legislators have an automated email link which makes contacting them very easy; you just fill in some blanks with your specific concerns and name/address.

· We have been told over and over again that the SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT thing families can do to change Indiana law is to TELL YOUR LEGISLATORS how you want them to vote.

· Marquette Montessori wants Indiana state legislature to provide state funds for pre-school education, just like it does for K through 12^th grade education.

o We have a VERY SUCCESSFUL, already up and running program that state could support with pride and good marketing!

o SBCSC has done a GREAT thing for Marquette—despite the pressure, it has continued to support the P3s and the P4s, even though the corporation pays for everyone of the 110+ students in full every year

§ SO take time to THANK the corporation for footing this bill it does not have any legal obligation to do!!

· Send a message to each legislator

· Ask your friends and family to send a message

· Numbers count!! And these two votes are important to every person with kids in school in Indiana and/or who pays property taxes.

Send these messages to your legislators TODAY:

· NEW ITEM: State Senators: Please vote against cuts to the Business Tax, House Bill 1001. This proposal will cut huge amounts of funds which go to counties and cities, and is used in part to fund SCHOOLS and libraries.

· State Senators: Please vote to repeal the Protected Tax law SEA517. This law is preventing local school corporations from managing school district funds as needed, and other Indiana law ALREADY guarantees that school corporations will repay debts.

· State Senators: Please vote to fund pre-school education in Indiana. This topic is in discussion right now in the State Senate; there is no formal bill yet. The single most reliable education fact--proved by scores of studies-- is that pre-school education has long term benefits for every child who receives it.

*Indiana State Senator John Broden: 800-382-9467 District 10 http://www.in.gov/legislative/senate_democrats/homepages/s10/601.htm

*Indiana State Senator Jim Arnold, district 8: (800) 382-9467

http://www.in.gov/legislative/senate_democrats/homepages/s8/560.htm