Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) proposed the “” bill that would provide $23 billion to extend the State Fiscal Stabilization Fund of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
How are educators reacting to this bill?
Listen to Lily as she explains:
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Children with a dream are counting on all of us.
They live in suburbs and cities and farming communities. They are black and white and brown. 
Some of them are curled up right now in a kindergarten reading corner listening to the teacher read the Cat in the Hat.
And some of them are writing a research paper on the Civil War. And some of them are putting on a football helmet and getting ready for after-school practice.
And some of them are putting on a cap and gown and getting ready to deliver the valedictorian speech.
They are your neighbors. They are you kids’ friends. And they love this country.
They were brought here years ago, some of them when they were babies, and they don’t have the proper papers. But they’ve lived most of their lives here. For many this is the only home they have ever known.
For whatever reasons their parents came, the decision to come was not made by these children.
Countdown to BILLIONS OF DOLLARS!
I’m a teacher. I know what counts. And in the month of March, what counts – literally – is the Census.
If you work for a public school, college or university, and you’re tempted to surf away from this fabulous blog page on The Census since it doesn’t have anything to do with you, let me explain that there’s about $40 BILLION DOLLARS in EDUCATION FUNDING at stake with the The Census.
If you’re reading this, and you’ve got students – preschool to graduate school – you’ve got .
Here’s why:
My friend said to me, “I missed . What’d he say? Give me hope.”
Ok.
He talked a lot about jobs.
She said, “Jobs? Give me hope about schools!”
White House Photo
I reminded her that he gave us a down-payment on his promise to make education a priority by not only including jobs protection in the first stimulus package a year ago, but actually earmarking some of those jobs fund to protect school jobs - 300,000 teachers, school secretaries and custodians didn’t get pink slips because of those federal dollars that went right to schools.
She said, “Oh yeah. But…”