By September 30, the Michigan legislature must pass a new budget. The current proposal on the table calls for $1.2 billion in cuts to the budget including all levels of education, pre-school to university. This budget will drastically reduce funding for libraries, force teacher layoffs, and revoke the Promise tuition grant that guarantees many high school students funding for college. Against Michigan Education Cuts is a group formed in the last few days to oppose these cuts. We met today to get things started.
Some info:
Please email or phone your representatives in the legislature. The AFT has a website that allows you to email your representatives very quickly and easily:
http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/budget1/
We will be holding a phone-in, in which we ask students and faculty to call their representatives, outside the Undergraduate Library at Wayne State all day on Tuesday, September 29. Please come help us spread the word!
Please let us know (by FaceBook, email, or comment below) if you’d like to be added to our organizers’ list, and please let us know if we can schedule you to work (for 30 minutes or longer) at the Phone-In table on Tuesday. (Working at the Phone-In table means passing out flyers and information and talking to passers-by about the budget proposal with the goal of getting them to make a phone call to their representative on the spot.)
If you’re involved in organizing at one of the other campuses around the state, keep us posted on what you’re doing!
Let’s make the mitten a fist!
