URGENT - SCSD Needs Our Support to Advocate for Fair Funding

The following is a message we received from Parents for Public Schools. Please consider signing this request for an increase in the financial support that SCSD receives from the state. If you haven't already signed their petition, the deadline is Thursday, March 20th, as it will be presented in Albany on Friday.

"The state has never made fair funding for schools a priority. Syracuse kids and families feel the effects every day. With this year’s budget season coming to a close, there is no action in sight. For this reason, Parents for Public Schools of Syracuse has posted online a petition to be sent to Governor Cuomo, Assemblymembers Magnarelli, and Roberts, and Senators DeFrancisco & Valesky.

We are asking our elected officials to act now to:

• Restore $7.7 million in foundation aid to Syracuse for the 2014-2015 school year as a good faith gesture toward renewing the promise that NYS will find a fair way to fund schools so that all children, even those who live in Syracuse, can enjoy their constitutional right to a sound basic education.
• Restore $1.8 million in flexible universal all-day pre-K funding.
• Eliminate immediately the balance of the Gap Elimination Adjustment and reallocate these funds to high needs districts, including Syracuse.

Will you sign this petition? It only takes a minute. Click here:

http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/a-syracuse-zip-code-shouldnt?source=s.icn.em.mt&r_by=1577722

Thank you for speaking up for Syracuse children."

Without these funding increases, we will not have the resources to provide the supports that so many of our students so desperately need in order to be successful in school. will continue to see the deterioration in our schools.

We must act now!!!