Post by fiberisgoodforyou on Jan 25, 2008 10:54:48 GMT -5
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Lobbying efforts pay off for Freehold Borough schools
Freehold Borough residents should now truly appreciate the most incredible feat the citizens of the town accomplished last spring.
Over the last week leading to the vote for the approved new education funding formula, bus loads of Abbott district parents traveled to Trenton.
Their purpose was to lobby and influence the state Assembly and the state Senate to not approve the new funding formula! You would think they had more lobbying power than the Yellow Shirts from Freehold Borough.
The parents of the little old Freehold Borough school district have proved to be highly effective citizen lobbyists. It is now so very evident that we truly did motivate through our activism, the Assembly and Senate last spring.
We fought and lobbied hard. We made our presence and dire situation well known. We received about half of what we had asked for, but we did receive desperately needed extra funding.
We raised our voices for what was right for our children's future, the future of our schools and our quality of life. We made hay and raised a number of influential eyebrows in Trenton. I must say also that we did help stimulate awareness by exposing our fiscal situation, that New Jersey absolutely needed a fair new funding formula.
The Abbott districts, with all their influence and lobby power, attempted to lobby against the new funding formula last week and failed.
Freehold Borough can look back and be proud that we overcame a serious school budget emergency mainly on our own. The citizen activists of Freehold Borough proved that righteous activism can pay off. And the most valuable lesson of all is our community mobilized to prove that you can create change not simply once a year in a voting booth, but change can come through popular organized displays of conviction.
Our public schools can become the academic gem that our faculty works so very hard to deliver to this community. We, the citizen activists, accomplished what very few others have accomplished. Congratulations to us.
Lobbying efforts pay off for Freehold Borough schools
Freehold Borough residents should now truly appreciate the most incredible feat the citizens of the town accomplished last spring.
Over the last week leading to the vote for the approved new education funding formula, bus loads of Abbott district parents traveled to Trenton.
Their purpose was to lobby and influence the state Assembly and the state Senate to not approve the new funding formula! You would think they had more lobbying power than the Yellow Shirts from Freehold Borough.
The parents of the little old Freehold Borough school district have proved to be highly effective citizen lobbyists. It is now so very evident that we truly did motivate through our activism, the Assembly and Senate last spring.
We fought and lobbied hard. We made our presence and dire situation well known. We received about half of what we had asked for, but we did receive desperately needed extra funding.
We raised our voices for what was right for our children's future, the future of our schools and our quality of life. We made hay and raised a number of influential eyebrows in Trenton. I must say also that we did help stimulate awareness by exposing our fiscal situation, that New Jersey absolutely needed a fair new funding formula.
The Abbott districts, with all their influence and lobby power, attempted to lobby against the new funding formula last week and failed.
Freehold Borough can look back and be proud that we overcame a serious school budget emergency mainly on our own. The citizen activists of Freehold Borough proved that righteous activism can pay off. And the most valuable lesson of all is our community mobilized to prove that you can create change not simply once a year in a voting booth, but change can come through popular organized displays of conviction.
Our public schools can become the academic gem that our faculty works so very hard to deliver to this community. We, the citizen activists, accomplished what very few others have accomplished. Congratulations to us.