{"id":13466,"date":"2011-05-07T02:34:39","date_gmt":"2011-05-07T02:34:39","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-07T02:34:39","modified_gmt":"2011-05-07T02:34:39","slug":"winograd-uses-campaign-phone-bank-to-save-california-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2011\/05\/07\/winograd-uses-campaign-phone-bank-to-save-california-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Winograd Uses Campaign Phone Bank to Save California Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Calitics Community,<\/p>\n

In solidarity with California teachers sitting-in in Sacramento, I sent out the following press release earlier today:<\/p>\n

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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Friday, May 6, 2011
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Contact: Campaign Press Office (916) 996-9170 Marcy@WinogradforCongress.com<\/p>\n

CAPITOL OCCUPATION: Congressional Candidate & Teacher Endorses Emergency
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Actions; Marcy Winograd to Use Campaign Phone Bank to ‘Save our Schools’<\/B><\/p>\n

VENICE – Marcy Winograd, a public high school teacher and congressional
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candidate (CA-36) will use her campaign phone bank to support the California Teachers
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Association “State of Emergency” week of action, May 9-13, at the State
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Capitol and across the state.<\/p>\n

<\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/p>\n

\"Marcy<\/a><\/p>\n

The press release continues below the jump…<\/p>\n

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In solidarity with teachers sitting-in in Sacramento, lobbying
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legislators throughout the state and tabling on college campuses,
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Winograd will call voters to support tax extensions to keep teachers on
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the job.<\/p>\n

“Did you know California faces a state of emergency? I’m Marcy
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Winograd, teacher and congressional candidate, asking you to help me
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save our schools,” will be the message voters hear when they receive a
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series of calls from the Winograd for Congress campaign.<\/p>\n

Statewide, 20,000 state teachers and health and human service
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professionals just received pink slips. In the Los Angeles Unified
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School District, 5,000 teachers face lay-offs.<\/p>\n

Winograd teaches English at Crenshaw High School in South Los Angeles,
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where 19 teachers received pink slips. “That’s half of our English
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department,” said Winograd. “What a travesty that in one of the richest
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nations in the world, we are starving our schools – getting rid of
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teachers, increasing class size, and closing summer school. Why is it
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that our nation always has money for war, but never for education?
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Investing in our youth is investing in national security.”<\/p>\n

To support the week-long emergency actions, Winograd will join teachers
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on the picket line in Los Angeles, phone bank to voters in the 36th
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District, speak to classes at El Camino College in Torrance, and conduct
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radio interviews about the budget crisis in our schools. The actions are
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designed to pressure Republican lawmakers to pass tax extensions to help
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balance the budget.<\/p>\n

“It is wrong to balance the budget on the backs of my students,” said
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Winograd. “Our young people deserve a quality public education. For
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some, it’s literally a matter of life and death because we know that
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students who drop out of school too often drop into a life of crime –
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and eventually to prison. In Congress, I will make funding education a
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national priority, so we can fully staff our schools and provide our
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students with an exciting and relevant curriculum.”<\/p>\n

<\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear Calitics Community,<\/p>\n

In solidarity with California teachers sitting-in in Sacramento, I sent out the following press release earlier today:<\/p>\n

\n

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
\n
Friday, May 6, 2011
\n
Contact: Campaign Press Office (916) 996-9170 Marcy@WinogradforCongress.com<\/p>\n

CAPITOL OCCUPATION: Congressional Candidate & Teacher Endorses Emergency
\n
Actions; Marcy Winograd to Use Campaign Phone Bank to ‘Save our Schools’<\/B><\/p>\n

VENICE – Marcy Winograd, a public high school teacher and congressional
\n
candidate (CA-36) will use her campaign phone bank to support the California Teachers
\n
Association “State of Emergency” week of action, May 9-13, at the State
\n
Capitol and across the state.<\/p>\n

<\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/p>\n

\"Marcy<\/a><\/p>\n

The press release continues below the jump…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1840,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[117,21],"tags":[172,4489,723,138,170,4644],"class_list":["post-13466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-117","category-21","tag-172","tag-4489","tag-723","tag-138","tag-170","tag-4644"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3vc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1840"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}