{"id":4008,"date":"2011-06-23T09:22:17","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T09:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pennaction.org\/pablog\/?p=4008"},"modified":"2011-07-23T22:07:34","modified_gmt":"2011-07-23T22:07:34","slug":"take-action-to-stop-the-corbett-cuts-to-education-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/?p=4008","title":{"rendered":"Take Action to Stop the Corbett Cuts to Education Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"_mcePaste\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 14px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 14px; line-height: normal;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;\">\n<div><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4019\" href=\"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/?attachment_id=4019\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4019\" title=\"education.jpg.scaled500\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pennaction.org\/pablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/education.jpg.scaled500-300x199.jpg?resize=300%2C199\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The budget battle in Harrisburg is coming to a close. \u00a0It&#8217;s critically important that you make your voice heard this week to let your state legislators know that you want them to make basic and higher education a priority for Pennsylvania. \u00a0Can you take a few minutes now to\u00a0<a style=\"color: #0000cc;\" href=\"http:\/\/statevoices.salsalabs.com\/dia\/track.jsp?v=2&amp;c=tmIlui9zsmuaSemFMCa53w%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\">send an email<\/a> to your state Senator and then follow-up with a phone call?<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Don&#8217;t let Harrisburg politicians let giant gas and oil companies get away tax-free while our children pay the price with underfunded schools and we are forced to pay higher property taxes.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">We want:<\/span><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"margin-left: 15px;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">To continue the funding at the levels that have improved education in Pennsylvania over the last 2 years.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-left: 15px;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">To address the inequitable cuts &#8211; poorer districts should not be getting higher cuts.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-left: 15px;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">To use the legal amount (75%) of the revenue surplus and other available resources such as a drilling fee, to restore funding to the basic education subsidy and higher education.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-left: 15px;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">A budget that DOESN\u2019T include a voucher program that would lead to MORE CUTS to education funding. \u00a0Vouchers are a radical shift in policy (and expensive!) and should be considered independently, not slipped into the budget process in order to ram them through.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Can you please take a few minutes to contact your state Senator?<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1.\u00a0<a style=\"color: #0000cc;\" href=\"http:\/\/statevoices.salsalabs.com\/dia\/track.jsp?v=2&amp;c=5EpSeXM3fX%2BaSemFMCa53w%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\">Send an email<\/a> to your state Senator reminding him\/her of your priorities as their constituent.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">2. Follow up that email with a\u00a0<strong>phone call<\/strong> to his\/her district office. \u00a0Phone numbers are provided after you submit your email. \u00a0Calls are very effective. PLEASE CALL!<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Now forward this email to your friends, family and neighbors and make sure they take ACTION!<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The budget battle in Harrisburg is coming to a close. \u00a0It&#8217;s critically important that you make your voice heard this week to let your state legislators know that you want them to make basic and higher education a priority for Pennsylvania. \u00a0Can you take a few minutes now to\u00a0send an email to your state Senator and then follow-up with a phone call? Don&#8217;t let Harrisburg politicians let giant gas and oil companies get away tax-free while our children pay the price with underfunded schools and we are forced to pay higher property taxes. We want: To continue the funding at the levels that have improved education in Pennsylvania over the last 2 years. To address the inequitable cuts &#8211; poorer districts should not be getting higher cuts. To use the legal amount (75%) of the revenue surplus and other available resources such as a drilling fee, to restore funding to\u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/?p=4008\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[123,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-penn-action-2","category-take-political-action"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p35YuU-12E","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4008"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6121,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4008\/revisions\/6121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}