LEGISLATIVE ALERT
We need you to contact your Senator today to urge him or her
to vote AGAINST SJ327 (McDougle). SJ327 is a constitutional amendment that
would allow for state takeover of public schools that are denied
accreditation. The constitutional amendment does not set forth specifics
for such a state takeover, thus giving the General Assembly broad authority to
devise a state takeover in future years. Most importantly, the
constitutional amendment would allow the state to take not only the state share
of per pupil funding but to also take the local share of per pupil
funding for each student in a school that is taken over. In other words,
this constitutional amendment would force localities to send local dollars to a
state-run entity without any control over what the state does with those local
dollars.
Urge your Senator to vote NO on SJ327.
