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Trustee tells teachers to pin budget woes on lawmakers
Lodi Unified Trustee Ken Davis offered up what he called a challenge to school district employees on Tuesday night.
Stop pointing the finger at district officials, and start telling state lawmakers that education cuts are not acceptable.
“I write an e-mail to a legislator everyday. I write seven of them a week. It takes 60 seconds,” Davis said at Tuesday night’s LUSD Board of Trustees meeting. “I challenge you to do the same. Take 60 seconds. Talk to your colleagues.”
Davis said Lodi Unified has 1,500 teachers. Multiply that by seven e-mails a week, that’s 10,500 messages flooding a Sacramento inbox.
“A couple school board members sending messages won’t make a dent. But if you get thousands of messages from just one school district, that can get them to think about chaning their stance on things.”
Especially in an election year, Davis said.