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New Letter to Parents - Ask Supervisors to pass resolution to support the Rainy Day Fund.
The San Francisco Unified School District faces layoffs of up to 505 teachers and administrators and dozens of paraprofessionals. Our schools desperately need the full $23 million Rainy Day Fund. Anything less will result in substantial layoffs and deep cuts to vital programs and services.
On February 24, 2009 City Hall announced that the city of San Francisco would provide only $11 million from the Rainy Day Fund to help offset the SFUSD's dire budget shortfall. This is the wrong interpretation of the law, and will deeply hurt our schools.
We ask that all UESF members do the following:
1. Contact the Mayor & the Board of Supervisors by email and by phone! Ask them to follow the law and give SF schools the full 25% of the Rainy Day Fund - $23 million! A sample letter, talking points (with emails to copy and paste), and contact sheet are available to assist you.
2. Talk to parents. Educate them about what's at stake - hundreds of layoffs and increases in class size. Ask them to contact the Mayor and Supervisors and for their students to do the same. We have developed a letter to hand to parents (English | Spanish) at drop off and pick up, as well as a coloring sheet for younger kids to use.
3. Bring your entire school to the UESF rally on Thursday, March 12th. The louder and greater our voices are, the more likely the City will do the right thing! We will gather at 4:00 p.m. at Civic Center Secondary school (727 Golden Gate Ave.). At 4:30 p.m. we will march past the state building to Civic Center, where the rally will begin at 5:00 p.m.
