To: The SASD School Board, Senator Richard Alloway, Representative Mark Keller, and Representative Rob Kauffman
Fund our schools so we can keep our music program whole and give our children the opportunities t...
We respectfully ask the Shippensburg Area School District school board to keep SASD’s music program whole in the 2015-2016 school year. Please do not cut the elementary school strings program.
We respectfully ask our state lawmakers to support a state budget for 2015-2016 that will invest additional resources in public education so that SASD will not need to make any more cuts this year, but will instead be able to restore cuts to programs and services that were made in recent years.
Finally, we ask our state lawmakers to take politics out of school funding and implement a funding formula to distribute state taxpayer dollars to school districts.
Why is this important?
For the fifth year in a row, SASD is faced with making deep cuts in our schools because of a broken state funding system that is based on politics rather than on what it actually costs to educate children. In the past 4 years, SASD has eliminated more than 40 full-time teachers and support staff from our schools just to balance the budget. This year we face another massive budget deficit as a result of inadequate state funding. Any additional cuts in programs and services in SASD will have a negative impact on every child in the school district.
We need our lawmakers to fix the broken state funding system for education this year —our children cannot afford to lose more from their schools. Our state lawmakers must invest additional state resources into schools so that SASD will will not need to make additional cuts this year and instead be able to begin to restore cuts to programs and services that we have made in recent years and put in place the full set of programs and services our children need.