help new york schools

after recording new prewar songs with matt , and spending the train ride home last night talking about charter schools vs. public schools (see matt's recent blog), i recieved this email today ( like ones i get every day in some way, shape or form) so please take a look at this, and please help by signing this:

Mayor Bloomberg proposes to cut $350 million directly from the classroom by removing 6,000 teachers from our schools through attrition and layoffs. In addition, the Mayor is proposing $79 million in cuts to early childhood education and $34 million in cuts to community-based after school programs. This would mean cuts to all schools and would lead to the sharpest rises in class size in over thirty years. There are clear alternatives

Arts, music, performing arts, physical education, career and technical education, libraries and intervention services would also be hard hit. The Mayor's budget represents a major step backwards in New York's commitment to quality education and is morally unconscionable.

We are calling on Mayor Bloomberg and the City Council to invest in school improvement, not cut programs, increase class sizes or take teachers out of the classroom.
So I signed a petition to Michael Bloomberg, Mayor and the New York City Council, which says:
"We are calling on Mayor Bloomberg and the City Council to invest in school improvement, not cut programs, increase class sizes or take teachers out of the classroom."
Will you sign this petition? Click here:

http://signon.org/sign/tell-mayor-bloomberg-1?source=s.em.mt&r_by=246399
Thanks!

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