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Senate Bill 618: Charter Schools and Cyber Schools - This bill is now before the state Senate education committee and would remove the cap on the number of charter schools in Michigan. Senate bill 619 passed the Senate and is in the House education committee, it would allow an unlimited number of “cyber schools” in Michigan (added 1/1/12)
At our last PTA meet we discussed legislation in the state house that would allow state money to flow to "cyber schools."
The New York Times recently completed an investigation of cyber schools, the full article is at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/13/education/online-schools-score-better-on-wall-street-than-in-classrooms.html?_r=1&hp
The "cyber schools" themselves are garbage, but they are not designed to educate children. They are designed by Wall Street speculators to funnel tax dollars into private pockets. Elected officials, both Democratic and Republican, are slowly catching on to this swindle. Please contact our legislators and make sure they know we do not want to see our education dollars wasted on cyber schools.
State Senator John Pappageorge: http://www.senate.michigan.gov/gop/senators/contact.asp?District=13
State Representative Jim Townsend: http://026.housedems.com/contact-me
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Go to the following website to contact Michigan legislatures concerning they way Govenor Snyder wants to cut school spending.:http://capwiz.com/npta2/mi/issues/alert/?alertid=37653501&PROCESS=Take+Action (added 3/31/11)
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The national PTA asks all of us to sign up for “PTA takes action” alerts at http://pta.org/takesaction/. If you sign up you’ll receive alerts from the national PTA when legislation affecting school kids is up for a vote in Congress. (added 11/28/10)
Please support the PTSA campaign in Congress to renew the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act that is in danger of not being renewed after 35 years.
Contact Legislative Chair if you have any questions. (updated 8-22-11)
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2012 Michigan PTSA Advocacy Day will be Saturday, March 3rd in Livonia @ the Holiday Inn near Laurel Park Mall. Please join local school supporters. (updated 1/23/12)
Click here for more information and a brief schedule
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School District of the City of Royal Oak
2010 Board of Education
Superintendent - Shawn Lewis-Lakin
School Board Meetings are open to the public. Go to www.royaloakschools.com/portal/bmeetings to see a schedule.
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Royal Oak City Government
City of Royal Oak web site
Mayor James Ellison
City Commissioners: Michael Andrzejak, Patricia Capello, Terry Drinkwine, David J. Poulton, Jim Razor and Charles Semchenar
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Federal Government:
President Barack H. Obama
Comments: 202-456-1111 ~ Switchboard: 202-456-1414 ~ FAX: 202-456-2461
Address:
1600 Pennsylvania Ave., NW Washington, D.C. 20500
First Lady Michelle Obama
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/
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Rep. Gary C Peters (D-MI-9th)
E-mail: gpeters@mail.house.gov
Web: http://peters.house.gov/index.html
WASHINGTON OFFICE
1130 Longworth HOB | Washington, DC 20515
Phone: 202-225-5802 | Fax: 202-226-2356
DISTRICT OFFICE
560 Kirts #105 | Troy, MI 48084
Phone: 248-273-4227 | Fax: 248-273-4704
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Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI)
E-mail: senator@levin.senate.gov
Web: www.senate.gov/~levin/
Phone: (202) 224-6221 Fax: (202) 224-1388
Address: 459 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
District Offices:
DETROIT
1860 McNamara Bldg. 477 Michigan Avenue Detroit, MI 48226
Phone (313) 226-6020 Fax (313) 226-6948 TDD (800) 851-0030 Phone: 313-226-6020
WARREN
30500 VanDyke, Suite 206 Warren, MI 48093
Phone (810) 573-9145 Fax (810) 573-8260
Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI)
E-mail: senator@stabenow.senate.govWeb: http://stabenow.senate.gov/
Phone: (202) 224-4822
Address: 702 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Mid-Michigan Office
Phone: (517) 203-1760
280 East Saginaw Hwy East Lansing, MI 48823
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Michigan State Government:
Governor Rick Snyder
Office of the Michigan Governor
Phone (517) 373-3400 or Fax (517) 335-6863
Address: P.O. Box 30013 Lansing, Michigan 48909
Subscribe to Email from the Gov
Visit this page regarding Michigan's First Gentleman
Representative Marie Donigan (D-District 26)
E-mail to mariedonigan@house.mi.gov
Phone: 517-373-3818
Address: P.O. Box 30014 Lansing, MI 48909-7514
website: http://house.mi.gov/mdonigan
Representative Andy Meisner (D-District 27)
E-mail to andymeisner@house.mi.gov
Phone: 517-373-0478
Address: P.O. Box 30014 Lansing, MI 48909-7514
website: http://house.mi.gov/ameisner
State Senate District: 13 Senator: John Pappageorge
Address: 1020 Farnum Building Office Phone: 373-2523 Office Fax: 373-5669
E-mail: SenJPappageorge@senate.michigan.gov Website: http://www.senate.michigan.gov/pappageorge/
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Political Links
The Project Vote Smart is an excellent site to research unbiased information about candidates. You can search for voting records, certain categories of bills - such as education - among other items. Project Vote Smart
Michigan Election Information
Try the League of Women Voters site at Democracy Net for a bit of information about the issues and candidates.
Visit this site for information about candidates, including independents.
Politics1.com Michigan Page
Try these links for help in explaining why voting matters:
www.kidsandpolitics.org/advocatetoolkit2.htm
www.kidsvoting.org/
www.nationalmockelection.org/why_press.html
pbskids.org/democracy/
www.kids-voting.com/links.html
www.declareyourself.com/index.html
www.everychildmatters.org/site/PageServer
www.publius.org
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