Urge your Senator to vote “YES”!

NEA ACTION ALERT!!!!!!!

 
 

Senate vote expected on $10 Billion for Education Jobs tomorrow morning. 

The federal "Jobs Bill" is still very much alive and we need as much visible and vocal support as we can muster.  This bill could save the jobs of some 135,000 educators and extend enhanced Federal Medical Assistance Percentages (FMAP) for six months.
We need to make sure that Senators Landrieu and Vitter "Do the Right Thing" and help keep public school employees working.

     

Phone calls & emails to Senator Landrieu and Senator Vitter DC will aid our effort in showing support.  Please encourage colleagues, friends and family to help.

 
 

Urge your Senator to vote "yes" by calling (866) 608-6355.

Urge your Senator to vote YES on cloture and YES on the bill for the sake of compassion and sound economics. By voting YES, they will help:

• Contain class size and sustain vital programs in our nation's schools. Without this bill, many students, especially the most vulnerable, will have bigger classes (35 to 40); no after-school programs; and no art, music, physical education, reading specialists, librarians, technology experts, nurses, or counselors.
  

 

• Keep Americans working instead of raising the unemployment rate. For every 100,000 education jobs that are lost, local communities will lose an additional 30,000 private sector jobs, according to the Economic Policy Institute.  
  

 

• Add not one penny to the federal deficit. Both the Federal Medical Assistance Percentages (FMAP) and education jobs provisions of the bill are fully offset.