Check out this chance to be an advocate for students: CENTRAL NEW YORK SCHOOL BOARDS ASSOCIATION FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 20, 2015 CONTACT: Margaret McCormick, 315-373-8047 Charles Borgognoni, 315-463-1904 Dr. Rick Timbs, 315-463-1904 Our Schools Remain at Risk! Regions schools, STILL running out of time, money and options, to hold Feb. 3 community advocacy forum on school funding issues Stakeholders from 18 school districts will converge on Auburn West Middle School on Tuesday, February 3, to draw attention to the ongoing fiscal crisis facing public schools and learn more about the issues and the need for grassroots advocacy. The event, “Our Schools Remain at Risk!,’’ has been organized to bring community members together for a lively, informative and motivating forum that will let them know what is at stake if state leaders do not eradicate the Gap Elimination Adjustment (GEA) and develop a funding formula that provides adequate, equitable and sustainable funding for our schools. “The goal of ‘Our Schools Remain at Risk!’ is to inform public school stakeholders about the now six-year downward spiral of funding and how it has equated to lost programs and opportunities for our children,’’ said Charles Borgognoni, Executive Director of the Central New York School Boards Association. “Much of the rhetoric coming from Albany purposefully mischaracterizes and even demonizes traditional public education in our state, usually in an uninformed ‘one size fits all’ manner. Attendees at the forum will get the actual, non-politicized facts about what is really at stake as the 2015-16 state budget is hammered out in Albany so that they will be able to more effectively bring their messages to their state legislators.’’ The February 3 program will begin at 6:30 p.m. and end at 8:30 p.m. The Auburn West Middle School is located at 217 Genesee St., Auburn 13021. The featured presenter for the forum is Dr. Rick Timbs, Executive Director of the Statewide School Finance Consortium. Dr. Timbs will cut through the layers and complexities of state aid to make it easy to understand and provide examples of how local school districts continue to suffer as a result of the Gap Elimination Adjustment, or GEA – a “temporary” state policy that for the past five years has withheld billions of dollars in legally authorized state aid from every public school district in the state. The Feb. 3 forum is being coordinated by the Central New York School Boards Association and Cayuga-Onondaga and Tompkins-Seneca-Tioga BOCES on behalf of the students, families and community members in the districts that make up the two BOCES regions. ##### CNYSBA’s mission is to inform public school board members about critical issues affecting public education and the operation of public schools and to mobilize board members to effectively influence stakeholders outside the schools who also share the constitutionally guaranteed responsibility for the education of our children. For more information, including a list of member districts, please visit CNYSBA at cnysba.org.
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