This month, my kids along with one million other students go back to school. They face larger class sizes, fewer teachers and less support because of state budget cuts. Initiative 1033, sponsored by Tim Eyman, promises to make things even worse.
We are working with a coalition of education groups to urge voters to reject I-1033, which will be on the November ballot. It’s simple: Initiative 1033 is bad for kids and schools!
Forward this message and urge your friends to vote NO on I-1033.
Parents, educators, school supporters and business leaders are working to get the message out about I-1033. The initiative would slash the state budget by nearly $6 billion in the next five years-taking away even more resources from Washington’s classrooms and our kids.
Need more proof? In 1992, Colorado passed a revenue limit like the one in I-1033, and later regretted it. As a result, funding for K-12 education plummeted, dropping Colorado to 49th in the nation in education funding. By 2005, things got so bad that Colorado voters-led by a bipartisan coalition of business leaders, teachers, seniors, healthcare providers, and firefighters-voted to suspend the law for five years to stop the damage to their public education system and their state.
Don’t let what happened in Colorado devastate Washington’s public schools, colleges and universities. Washington is currently 44th in the nation in education funding-are we ready to drop to the bottom?
Send this message to at least five of your friends and urge them to vote NO on I-1033 today!
To learn more about I-1033, visit http://no1033.com/truth.
