A united front

Every parent and educator should do this. [View as Webpage]( [National Education Association]( [EdAction]( {NAME}, School is back in session. From Belleview, Washington, to Belle Isle, Florida, educators are opening their doors and their arms to students. The new school year is full of promise and possibilities! Congress is also back in session and the same politicians who want to ban books and whitewash our history are now pushing the most drastic cuts to federal school funding in history. [Help show a united front between educators and parents against devastating education cuts. Email your elected officials in Congress now.]( A bill in the House Appropriations Committee would cut federal funding for Title I schools by 80%. You read that right—80%, not 8%! It would be the deepest, most drastic reduction in federal education funding ever, and be devastating to our students and schools. This funding helps fill in gaps for schools that have been historically underfunded for generations—schools in predominantly Black, brown, and rural areas. In fact, 53% of students nationwide benefit from the enhanced support and smaller class sizes Title I provides. [WRITE CONGRESS ➤]( So why do extreme conservative politicians in Congress want to cut this funding? I’ll tell you why. If they can starve public schools from the funding they need, students will likely perform worse on assessments (that have never been a good barometer of success). These politicians can then justify giving more money to vouchers, which will help their wealthy donors pay for private school. I hate to be so cynical, but there is really no other reason that anyone would want to cut a program that helps so many children. There should be broad, bipartisan condemnation of this proposal. I wish there were—but unfortunately that's not reality. Yet. That’s where you come in. [If you want to protect this crucial federal funding for our public school students, then please take action right now and write your member of Congress.]( (We’ve even provided a sample letter for you to make it easy.) The more people who write in and sound the alarm, the more we can demonstrate the universal opposition to cutting Title I. Educators and parents want the same thing for our students. We want all of them to have a safe, supportive environment where they can learn the ideas and skills they need to step fully into their magnificent brilliance. Our elected officials should want that too. Our children are counting on them. In solidarity, Becky Pringle President National Education Association [fb]( [tw]( [in]( [NEA - National Education Association]( Help us tailor our emails to you [Are You An Educator? ➤]( You received this email at {EMAIL} because you are signed up for NEA EdAction, online and in‑person actions to build great public schools for every student. [Click here to unsubscribe.]( © 2023 National Education Association 1201 16th St NW, Washington, DC 20036 [NEA Action Center]( | [Privacy Policy]( | [Terms of Service]( | [Subscribe]( | [Unsubscribe](