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Contact your Legislators!

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As you all know, the President's proposed Federal 2006 budget eliminates all funding for the Enhancing Education Through Technology Act, originally funded as a part of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. The California State Assembly and Senate have recently passed Senate Joint Resolution 8 (SJR-8), explaining the impact that elimination that these funds will have on technology education in California.  Currently, the House and Senate have recommended funding EETT at lower than last year’s level, with the House version significantly lower.  This issue will be considered in conference committee in the next few days, so your immediate action is needed!

As the budget debate continues, it is extremely important that all educators who value the positive impact that technology is having on both teaching and learning make your Senators and Representatives aware of the huge negative impact these cuts will have on students in our State.

In order to assist you in making your voice heard, we have posted a Word mail merge letter that produces a customized letter to each member of Congress you select with a fax cover sheet, an Excel workbook with contact information for all members of the House and Senate to use as a data source, as well as two short illustrated tutorials, one for Mac and other for PC, on the steps you need to follow to make every thing work. Please feel free to modify this letter if you would like; however, do not feel that you have to.  Just putting your name and title on the letter, your contact information on the fax sheet, printing the letters on your letterhead, and faxing them out will be very helpful.

It is important that you save all of the documents attached into a single folder on your local system prior to using them.  You may also want to print out the short tutorial, MergeNow_Mac.doc or MergeNow_Win.doc, before you begin. Also, we have attempted to verify the contact information for all of the members of Congress; however, if you find errors, please let me know so that the data can be corrected.

Finally, if you are not certain who your representatives in Congress are, the link below has an excellent lookup system that only requires your mailing address and zip code.

http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/

Thank you!

This announcement was brought to you by members of the CUE Legislative Advocacy Committee.

Chris York, Chair
CUE Legislative Advocacy Committee

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