PA Budget Impasse & the Link to Education

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by Viveca E. Gresham | 10.07.2009
Children Just For Now,Executive Director, Viveca Gresham, understands the value of education.
Parents,caregivers,& the unemployed,won't be working anyhow? So why not train them in the grant writing process?
This could become a course at the Parent University ,endorsed by the School District of Philadelphia. Makes sense to me!
http://www.cjfnn.webs.com/

CCIS, Early Childhood Education Centers, Daycare Providers, & taxpayers,
everyone is affected by the budget impasse.

I remember when I served on the School Improvement Committee, at Lowell
Elementary School, under Mrs. Carol Hodges Principal; our job was to devise &improve the school budget.
We had a deadline too.

Imagine what would have happened if the Technology Committee that i served on ,
didn't turn in our budget on time. We would have been written
-up,administratively transfered out or worse, received unsatisfactory ratings
for the year.

Just recently, one of the childcare providers near Broad& Olney Ave. informed me
that he will have to close his doors within days,because he has not been able to
pay his workers. He has not received payment since June of this year.

Some Daycare facilities are able to write grants to seek additional funding. But
what about those that lack the knowledge, or don't have time or resources to hire
someone like me to write a grant.

This is worth repeating "u get paid according to the size of the problem u solve.. solve big problem,get big check.. copy? :-) Rev. Run"

To overhaul the schools' technology required hard capital expenditures. Although
I collaborated and wrote the grant for the school,we receive funding at the
cluster level. I was then promoted to school- wide Technology Teacher Leader
and then subsequently moved to position of Computer Science Teacher & Network
Administrator.

The budget for subsidized daycare has been eliminated. So what should we do? I
would like to see more workshops to train young mothers on how to be proactive and
learn how to write proposals to get subsidized daycare back into the budget. The
days of sitting back waiting for someone else to do it for you, are over !

Unemployment figures have reached 9.8%. The second highest figures since The Great Depression. And this figure does not include those who have stopped looking for work. Everyday that the budget is not passed, the doors to public and private sectors will close, and more jobs will be lost in Pennsylvania.

"Channel the energy of your disappointment into the positive efforts of your comeback." Marston

Parents,caregivers,& the unemployed,won't be working anyhow? So why not train them in the grant writing process?
This could become a course at the Parent University ,endorsed by the School District of Philadelphia. Makes sense to me!

Meanwhile,Join us as we mark 100 days and protest the budget impasse!

Thursday October 8, 2009
NOON
Municipal Services Building, Philadelphia
JFK Blvd between Broad and 15th

We are suffering while legislators are being paid.

Featured Speakers:
Lynne Cutler, Women's Opportunity Resource Center
David Fair, United Way of Southeastern PA
Sharmain Matlock-Turner, Greater Philadelphia Urban Affairs Coalition
Matthew Teter, Calcutta House
Shelly Yanoff, Public Citizens for Children and Youth

Sponsored by the Southeastern PA Coalition for Essential Services.
See http://pabudgetnow.wordpress.com/ for more information or contact Jennine
Miller at jmiller@projecthome.org or 215-232-7272.

Remember, it's always your choice!

PA Budget Impasse & the Link to Education