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Coastside Parents to Protest State Budget Cuts to Education
Locals to gather at Thursday morning rally and demand state stop cuts to education.
This Thursday, March 15, the notorious “Pink Slip” day when thousands of teachers get lay-off notices, a group of Coastside parents and students are planning a rally at 7 a.m. at the corner of Kelly and Highway 1 to protest the State's funding cuts to education and demand that the legislature do their job and create a balanced budget with no cuts to education.
The organized event is part of a larger initiative through Educate Our State’s website. According to the website, the event is called "This Budget Blows" and in protest of budget cuts, parents and students will be blowing bubbles to tell State leaders, “Don’t blow it! You have the power to fully fund education now!”
Educate Our State is a parent-led, statewide campaign to unite the voices of Californians in support of high-quality K-12 public education and demand real change.
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Thursday's launch event, one of many across the state of the California, will publicize the need for parents to take action by sending letters to state legislators through the Educate Our State’s website.
If you can't make Thursday's This Budget Blows event, here are some other ways you can participate:
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1. Organize a Bubble Blowing Event - click here to register or RSVP for an event. Click here to download a toolkit which includes flyers to distribute, a check list and general instructions, a press release, a media advisory, outreach information, information on how to get personalized bubbles, and more.
2. Send letters to state legislators by clicking here.
3. Upload photos of your kids blowing bubbles to deliver them to Sacramento.
4. Write a Letter to the Editor by clicking here.
5. E-mail 10 friends and ask them to take action too.
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