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Dear
PTA Advocate:
We need your help! Congress is considering a long-term
budget plan, and we need PTA members to reach out to them asking them to
replace the sequester cuts with balanced, smarter alternatives.
A few weeks ago, Congress voted to end the government
shutdown and continue funding the government through mid-January 2014. So
what's next? As part of the agreement --
members of the House of Representatives and Senate were selected to be part of
a budget conference to identify long-term spending before December 15, 2013.
That means that members of Congress must hear from
constituents NOW about funding priorities important to you!
In the last few years, almost 70 percent of deficit
reduction has been from spending cuts to Non-defense Discretionary (NDD)
programs, including education. You may recall that because Congress failed to pass a balanced budget in
2012, all federally-funded education programs were subjected to a 5 percent
automatic across-the-board cut at the beginning of 2013 (known as the
sequester). Unless the sequester is resolved, cuts will continue for an
additional nine years.
Please take action now to tell Congress you want the
drastic cuts to education funding to stop!
