Write Letters to the Editor of Your Newspaper
SAMPLE LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
If you would like to copy any of these letters to your PC, all you need to do is to highlight the text of the one you like with your cursor to select it. Next, click copy. Then, paste the text into a Word document. Once you have the text in Word (or another suitable word processing program), you can make any minor changes, and your letter will be ready to send on it's way.
Dear Editor:
As a parent and as a member of the ___________ PTA/PTSA/Parent Club/School District, I am deeply concerned about the effects on children of the Governor's 2005-06 State Budget proposal. The proposal funds education below the Proposition 98 guaranteed minimum and further harms public schools that already suffer from inadequate resources. This budget breaks the promise made last year to California's schools and to our six million public school students to pay back the money borrowed from Proposition 98 and to avoid more harmful cuts in future years, despite the fact that state revenues are now higher than projections indicated when the promise was made.
Legislators must consider the long term, negative effects of inadequate funding on California's children as they deliberate the proposal. We must meet our obligation to provide our children with a quality education to prepare them and our state to be competitive in a global society.
I would also like to mention a new website, www.poeticsos.blogspot.com , which was developed by a California parent. Her hope in providing this website is to allow better sharing of information related to school funding throughout the state of California. Her website includes information such as, sample letters to elected officials, the RAND report, links to PTA and ASCA, links to other school districts showing how the funding crisis is impacting them, etc. I would highly recommend this website to parents and other readers concerned about education funding.
Sincerely,
Name
PTA title if applicable
Address
Phone number
Dear Editor:
Governor Schwarzenegger's 2005-06 State Budget proposal plunges education funding below the Proposition 98 guaranteed minimum and further harms public schools that already suffer from inadequate resources. Legislators must consider the long term, negative effects of inadequate funding on California's children as they deliberate the proposal.
According to the January 2005 RAND Corporation report, the decline of California's K-12 system parallels the shrinking of per pupil financial support for education during the past three decades. California's ethnically diverse population poses many educational challenges. The California State PTA believes that a strong public education system is vital to California's well-being in a global society, and that optimum educational opportunity for all students should be provided.
As a member of the ___________ PTA/PTSA/Parent Club/School District and as a parent, I believe the Governor and Legislature should consider all necessary actions, including state budget structural reform, to ensure a budget that serves the needs of children, schools and families. Our children deserve the best educational opportunity we can give them.
I would also like to mention a new website, www.poeticsos.blogspot.com , which was developed by a California parent. Her hope in providing this website is to allow better sharing of information related to school funding throughout the state of California. Her website includes information such as, sample letters to elected officials, the RAND report, links to PTA and ASCA, links to other school districts showing how the funding crisis is impacting them, etc. I would highly recommend this website to parents and other readers concerned about education funding.
Sincerely,
Name
PTA title if applicable
Address
Phone number
Dear Editor:
As a parent and as a member of the ___________ PTA/PTSA/Parent Club/School District, I am deeply concerned about the effects on children of the Governor's 2005-06 State Budget proposal. The proposal funds education below the Proposition 98 guaranteed minimum and further harms public schools that already suffer from inadequate resources.
Legislators must consider the long term, negative effects of inadequate funding on California's children as they deliberate the proposal. California's schools are among the lowest funded in the nation and have suffered $9.8 billion in cuts in the last several years. Our average class size is the second largest in the nation. We are last in the nation in the funding of school nurses, librarians, and counselors. Yet we have the most rigorous academic standards and one of the most stringent accountability systems in the nation. These high standards point the way to academic success for our students and future workers, but schools require adequate funding in order to fulfill that promise.
The Governor and legislators must meet their responsibility to California's children, on whose success the future of California rests. They need to consider all necessary actions, including state budget structural reform, to ensure a budget that serves the needs of children, schools and families. Our children deserve the best educational opportunity we can give them.
I would also like to mention a new website, www.poeticsos.blogspot.com , which was developed by a California parent. Her hope in providing this website is to allow better sharing of information related to school funding throughout the state of California. Her website includes information such as, sample letters to elected officials, the RAND report, links to PTA and ASCA, links to other school districts showing how the funding crisis is impacting them, etc. I would highly recommend this website to parents and other readers concerned about education funding.
Sincerely,
Name
PTA title if applicable
Address
Phone number
Dear Editor:
As a parent and as a member of the ___________ PTA/PTSA/Parent Club/School District, I am deeply concerned about the effects on children of the Governor's 2005-06 State Budget proposal. Not funding education as Proposition 98 requires would further harm public schools that already suffer from inadequate resources. Legislators must consider the long term, negative effects of inadequate funding on California's children as they deliberate the proposal.
The ongoing education funding shortfall has resulted in pressure on parents to raise funds for their children's schools to provide necessities such as instructional materials, programs, and personnel. While these efforts add resources to schools in need, they create a gap between school communities that can provide additional funds and those that cannot. PTA believes that public funds should pay for public schools.
The California State PTA believes that a strong public education system is vital to California's well-being in a global society, and that optimum educational opportunity for all students should be provided. As a member of the ___________ PTA/PTSA and as a parent, I believe the Governor and Legislature must consider all necessary actions, including state budget structural reform, to ensure a budget that serves the needs of children, schools and families. Our children deserve the best educational opportunity we can give them.
I would also like to mention a new website, www.poeticsos.blogspot.com , which was developed by a California parent. Her hope in providing this website is to allow better sharing of information related to school funding throughout the state of California. Her website includes information such as, sample letters to elected officials, the RAND report, links to PTA and ASCA, links to other school districts showing how the funding crisis is impacting them, etc. I would highly recommend this website to parents and other readers concerned about education funding.
Sincerely,
Name
PTA title if applicable
Address
Phone number
Dear Editor:
As a parent and as a member of the ___________ School District, I am deeply concerned about the effects on children of the Governor's 2005-06 State Budget proposal. Not funding education as Proposition 98 requires would further harm public schools that already suffer from inadequate resources. Legislators must consider the long term, negative effects of inadequate funding on California's children as they deliberate the proposal.
The ongoing education funding shortfall has resulted in pressure on parents to raise funds for their children's schools to provide necessities such as instructional materials, programs, and personnel. While these efforts add resources to schools in need, they create a gap between school communities that can provide additional funds and those that cannot.
I believes that a strong public education system is vital to California's well-being in a global society, and that optimum educational opportunity for all students should be provided. As a parent, I believe the Governor and Legislature must consider all necessary actions to ensure a budget that serves the needs of children, schools and families. Our children deserve the best educational opportunity we can give them.
I would also like to mention a new website, www.poeticsos.blogspot.com , which was developed by a California parent. Her hope in providing this website is to allow better sharing of information related to school funding throughout the state of California. Her website includes information such as, sample letters to elected officials, the RAND report, links to PTA and ASCA, links to other school districts showing how the funding crisis is impacting them, etc. I would highly recommend this website to parents and other readers concerned about education funding.
Sincerely,
Name
PTA title if applicable
Address
Phone number
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