Town Clock rally (4 -5 p.m.) local focus for statewide statement on the future of public education
Educators, parents, students and community members will stand together to bring attention to the plight of public school funding in California. In 
just the past two years, $17 billion has been cut from K-12 schools and our colleges & universities. More than 16,000 teachers have lost their jobs.
Parents, community members, students, teachers, elected officials must stand together to demand smart policy and financial reforms that support strong neighborhood schools. Slashing school budgets disproportionately at the local level places the greatest impact squarely on the classroom. The cost? A generation of young learners. There is no question that California needs to get its financial house in order, but it cannot do so on the backs of our youngest, our most vulnerable and our greatest hope for the future.
We hope you will join us in sending a message to Sacramento.
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Stand Up for Schools Protect our Students California Teachers Association
March 4, 2010
Dear Santa Cruz Education Foundation
I am a reciever of Santa Cruz Public Education from the 1960′S(Natural Bridges)&(Gault Elem.)1970′s(B-40 Jr Hi)& Harbor H.S.) & Cabrillo College
The tremendous and vibrant education from Santa Cruz, CA Schools gave me the resources to achieve and be prepared to live life with optimism.
There is a solution to the current crisis: Human unity & potential, believing in a fair system which serves the needs of our educational heritage.
Our Nations Heritage began with this July 4th 1776 Declaration of Independence:
…That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. –Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. …
May we believe this current crisis is temporary, resolved to correct, and strive for the determination to allow ourselves a better educational future.
Your Friend,
University of California Merced applicant 2009 – UC Merced
Edward A. Torres
Gault School Graduate 1970
Branciforte Jr. Hi School Graduate 1972
Harbor High School Graduate 1976