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About 100 teachers, education support professionals, administrators, school board members and others write to their legislators at a postcard-writing party in a church basement in Beaver Dam.

Participants wrote primarily to Sen. Scott Fitzgerald and Rep. Jeff Fitzgerald about how they and students are being affected by a projected $700,000 Beaver Dam school district funding shortfall for next year. On April 19, the school board voted to issue preliminary layoff notices to 26 teachers.

They also wrote to Senate Majority Leader Mary Panzer and Assembly Speaker John Gard about their opposition to the so-called Taxpayer Bill of Rights (TABOR) or any other tax freeze proposal. TABOR would severely limit the ability of local governments to raise taxes. Some Republican legislators are considering the possibility of bringing TABOR up for a vote in the Legislature. It would be advanced as an amendment to the State Constitution.

The Beaver Dam Education Association and the Beaver Dam Support Staff Association organized the event, which generated 275 letters at the church and another 30 off site.

– Submitted by Jackie Burke

Posted April 19, 2004

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