A call for action - - - contact your Republican representative today! Read
attached.
Kimberly Hughes
SSS Program Assistant/WESTOP Legislative & Education Chair
5241 N Maple Avenue, TA35
Fresno, CA 93740-8027
559-278-5725 work/559-470-5782 cell
559-278-1441 fax
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Sent: Sat, February 12, 2011 9:10:05 PM
Subject: [westop] Fw: [Trio-list] House Proposes to Cut TRIO by $24.9 Million in
FY2011!
Prepare for action.... more to come on Monday!
Rafael Topete
Sanity may be madness but the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as
it should be.
- Don Quixote
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Sent: Sat, February 12, 2011 8:07:24 PM
Subject: [Trio-list] House Proposes to Cut TRIO by $24.9 Million in FY2011!
This went out via Congress Plus earlier today.
February 12, 2011
Dear Colleague:
Last night, House Republicans introduced a bill that not only cuts TRIO funding
for the remainder of FY 2011 by 2.9% (for a loss of $24.9 million), but provides
inadequate funding for programs important to the education of low-income and
first-generation students and threatens our national security. If this bill is
passed, 60,000 students could be kicked out of the Talent Search
and EOC programs this year (programs funded by the FY 2011 bill) due to lack of
funding and Congressional support. GEAR UP received a 6.1% cut in funding for FY
2011 for a loss of $19.8 million.
The Republican bill also drastically cuts funding for programs like Head Start,
freezing funding for Pell Grants at last year’s level (therefore requiring
maximum grant amounts to be reduced by more than $800 per student because of
continued growth in the number of students eligible and the levels of financial
need) and cutting services off for hundreds of thousands of students receiving
services and funding from Hispanic Serving Institutions, Tribal Colleges,
Historically Black Colleges and Universities, and funds for Asian American
Pacific Islanders. The bill also eliminates the Federal Supplemental Educational
Opportunity Grant (SEOG) program (a program for undergraduates with exceptional
financial need). For a full list of cuts, please visit
http://republicans.appropriations.house.gov/_files/ProgramCutsFY2011ContinuingResolution.pdf.
The bill, cobbled together by the House Republicans, represents an assault on
programs focused on providing services and opportunity to low-income
Americans. COE urges all supporters of TRIO (including parents,
staff, institution leaders, community activists and students) to contact their
House Members immediately (contact information available
at http://www.congressweb.com/t/l/?MZSGAPCRRYWNGVM) and demand that they not
support this bill. Be ready to talk about the importance of these programs to
your students, your institution and your community. COE encourages you to
contact all Members of the House on both sides of the aisle but if you are
represented by a Republican, it is important you get everyone involved with
your program to outreach to that office because it is a Republican bill.
COE staff is here to assist you throughout the weekend and through the week.
Please contact Kimberly Jones ([log in to unmask], cell # 202.489.6745)
or Heather Valentine ([log in to unmask], cell # 202.744.4043).
In addition, President Obama will release his Budget proposal on Monday
morning. COE staff will update you as information is provided throughout the
weekend and week.
Sincerely,
Arnold L. Mitchem
President
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