I am asking for your help, this week, right away (before Friday, March 12). I’m trying to make it simple for you. Send off an email to your representative (link below) stressing the urgency of continuing the funding for the National Writing Project.
I am attaching a letter that I wrote to Representative Arcuri.
Simple version: Tell your representative why the Writing Project is important to you, your kids, community, school, students, colleagues, and/or profession. Ask your representative to sign the letter that is being circulated by Representative George Miller, chair of the House Education and Labor Committee (see the letter at http://nwpworks.ning.com/page/house-dear-colleague-letter).
The following paragraph tells why it is more important this year than ever before. Copy it or paraphrase it. If funds are consolidated, the NWP stands to lose too much!
I am writing to urge you to support the National Writing Project as it faces losing
its federal funding. The NWP is currently at risk as a result of the administration’s
proposed strategy to consolidate it with five other literacy programs which would
only offer funding to state agencies competing for it with new, unproven
programs. The National Writing Project has a thirty-six year program of success
in improving literacy among students by profoundly supporting the professional
development of their teachers.
Find your local representative at:
https://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml
Feel free to forward this email to anyone you think might be able to help.
Thank you,
Cynthia
Find my letter to Representative Arcuri here
