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#1 Buckeye

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Posted 19 April 2011 - 09:26 AM

No doubt everyone is aware of the dire financial situation our public schools are facing. The Buckeye Education Foundation is a volunteer organization raising funds to keep our seven Buckeye district schools at the level we all expected them to be when we chose to raise our families here. Programs are being cut each year - perhaps so slowly you don't even notice, but compare what's available here to what schools in the Bay Area offer and you'll see that our kids are getting far less.

The state will not fund our schools at the level needed. In fact, our children's schools are facing the possibility of a $4.5 million cut for next year (2011-12). This is 16% of the total budget - cut in one year! (see the district site: http://buckeyeusd.or...mationGraph.pdf)

With an annual donation of $250 per child (only $21/month) our children will continue to enjoy PE Specialists, Elementary Music Instruction, fully staffed libraries, middle school electives and more! Where else can you get so much for only $21 per month? You can even set up automatic monthly payments on the Foundation web site! www.buckeyefoundation.org

Without community funding, our schools will deteriorate. Art and music are no longer part of the elementary curriculum. Spanish is only available to a limited number of students in 7th and 8th grade. Worse is coming next year.

Please support the Foundation and encourage your friends to do likewise. The Foundation is also in need of volunteers to join the various committees. There is information on the web site.

The Foundation's biggest fundraiser is coming up May 7: www.toasttoeducation.org Tickets are available online.

Certainly there are fingers that could be pointed as to how we got into this mess, but the reality is that public schools are still one of the best deals going (priced private schools lately?). The only short term solution to the funding problem is to put your children's education ahead of these issues and do whatever you can to support your children's education.

This year the Foundation raised over $120,000 in donations and helped to fund the elementary PE program and library staff. Next year the need will be much greater. Your children's education matters!

Thank you!
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The Buckeye Education Foundation is volunteer staffed non-profit 501©3 corporation. Over 90% of the funds raised go directly to education programs in the seven Buckeye Union schools. Tax ID# 27-1254269

#2 GreenwayRich

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Posted 26 April 2011 - 11:11 AM

Buckeye,

What a great organization and proactive approach to solving our funding short falls, hat's off to you and your organization. My wife was formerly a principal of a charter high school in the foothills and is now the principal of a high school in Sacramento so I live the educational budget crunch on a daily basis. It is bad as you say and there is very little if any help coming from the state on this in the near term. It is wonderful to see communities organizing to prioritize education.

Keep up the good work!
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