Attempts to Squelch Abbott District Town Meeting?

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Abbott school funding issues put everyone at risk: taxpayers, parents, teachers, and. . .politicians.

• TAXPAYERS should be concerned because the SCHOOLS portion of the local tax bill has not increased in ten years. If Gov. Corzine holds Abbott funding at current levels next year, school districts -- including Plainfield's -- will be forced to look at SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASING the local tax levy.
  
  
• PARENTS and TEACHERS should be concerned because any reduction in Abbott funding will put the district's students at risk of falling even farther behind in the chase for a quality education that prepares them for life success.
  
  
• POLITICIANS should be concerned because elected officials become responsible for any INCREASE IN TAXES, or any DECREASE IN PUBLIC SCHOOL EFFECTIVENESS.

So then, it's a GOOD THING to have a TOWN MEETING to hash out all the issues that are being put on the table by pressures on the Abbott districts and their funding, right?

And it's a GOOD THING to have the state's educational agitator-in-chief -- David Sciarra, executive director of the Education Law Center -- present to weigh in on the issues, right?

And it's a GOOD THING to have the support of a broad range of community, religious and nonprofit organizations*, right?

So if it's such a GOOD THING, why would Assemblyman Green be working behind the scenes to SQUELCH THE TOWN MEETING by arm-twisting participants and endorsing organizations to withdraw their participation and support?

Good question.

Come out and get YOUR own answers.

ABBOTT FUNDING TOWN MEETING

Thursday, October 5 (Tomorrow) - 7 PM
Washington Community School
427 Darrow Avenue
(Parking in Spooner Avenue lot)

FREE. REFRESHMENTS WILL BE SERVED.

Info: (908) 926-2112 or www.newdemocrats4plainfield.org

*Sponsor: New Democrats for Plainfield. Endorsed by: QUEST (Queen City Educational Study Team) · Plainfield Area YMCA · YWCA of Central NJ · Plainfield Grassroots CDC · First Unitarian Society of Plainfield (Social Justice Committee) · Rahway-Plainfield Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) · Plainfield Republican Municipal Committee · Unity Neighborhood Association (Heather Roberts, VP)

-- Dan Damon

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