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 Alert #9: FY2017         
5/18/17
ALERT SUMMARY:

1.  PURVIEW:  State (not federal)

2.  LEVEL OF MOBILIZATION:  everyone --  students, staff, volunteers, other supporters 

3.  TIMELINE:  Immediate  
 

SENATOR JAMIE ELDRIDGE FILING SENATE AMENDMENT TO INCREASE FUNDING FOR ABE!

 

- The Senate Ways and Means Committee released their FY18 budget proposal yesterday and funded the ABE line item at $30.25 million.

  

 

- Of the proposed $1.45 million increase in the Senate Ways and Means budget, $600,000 would restore the Governor's 9C cuts made in December 2016 and $250,000 is an earmark for Operation ABLE, a workforce training program in Boston.  This would leave a $600,000 increase for ABE programs.

 

-  Since FY2001, the purchasing power of the ABE line item has decreased 30% when adjusted for inflation.  In order to meet the rigors of WIOA and the new requirements of the MA Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, ABE programs need more funding.  

 

- Working with MCAE, Senator Jamie Eldridge (D- Marlborough) will file an amendment to increase funding for ABE line item #7035-0002 to $31.5 million.

 


WE NEED YOUR STATE SENATOR TO CO-SPONSOR SENATOR ELDRIDGE'S AMENDMENT! 

-  Please call or email your state senator immediately and urge him/her to sign-on as a co-sponsor to Senator Eldridge's amendment for ABE line item #7035-0002.  

-  We need to get sponsors signed on by 5 p.m. today to be sure they are included!
 
-  Our goal is to have 30 co-sponsors!  The more co-sponsors we have, the better our chance for the amendment to be successful in the budget debate.  

-  To sign-on, your senator should contact Ryan Gelman at Senator Eldridge's office, 617.722.1120 immediately. 
 
-  To find your state senator.

PLEASE ACT NOW AND REPORT BACK!
 
-  Please call your state senator's office now and keep calling until you reach him/her or an aide!

-   Once you've made your call, please contact MCAE Director, Jeff McLynch, to let us know if your senator made a commitment to you to sign onto the amendment as a co-sponsor so we can keep count of our sponsors.
 
Thank you so much!

 

NEXT MCAE PUBLIC POLICY COMMITTEE MEETING 
  
  May 19, 2017

 

 10 a.m. to 12 noon 

 

World Education
44 Farnsworth St - 7th fl
Boston, MA

via videoconference:
Picknelly Education Center, Holyoke, MA

 

contact George Kohout  for exact room location