Defend Your District!
March 1-3, 2009

There has never been a more critical time to meet your Legislators in Albany!

 
The state budget cuts that are being planned will impact your district in
one of two ways:

• your taxpayers will face an enormous increase in May 2009, and/or
• your district will be forced to make unpopular and damaging cuts to programs and services.

Neither of those options provides the critical resources needed to educate our children and respect local taxpayers.

On March 1st through the 3rd, NYSSBA will host its most important State Issues Conference in years:  so important that it will be held at the State Plaza itself to maximize interaction with your state leaders.

Participation by each and every school district is crucial to preserving adequate state resources, local authority and mandate relief.

The urgency of this issue is so significant that NYSSBA is extending complimentary registration for all participants to enable every school district to send at least one, if not several, representatives.  We must gather hundreds of local school board members and administrators to take our case to state leaders!

It i s only through this solidarity that Albany can be dissuaded from balancing the budget at the expense of our schools.

Come to defend your students and your community from the destructive impact of insufficent aid, new and costly mandates and attacks on local school board authority.

A NYSSBA Member Benefit

Be part of the most critical school leadership gathering in Albany history!  Your community can't afford for you to be absent and NYSSBA will comp your registration, including conference meals, to make sure you're there!

Make your hotel reservations now!  Call the hotels directly.
Your district's part in this partnership is to pay your hotel and travel costs, so NYSSBA has discounted rates for those district leaders who require overnight housing. 

• Crowne Plaza, Albany    $152 single or double   518-462-6611  space availability basis after February 8, 2009
• Hampton Inn Albany Downtown:  $139 single or double  518-432-70000  space available basis after February 8, 2009.
• 74 State St Hotel:  $155 single or double  518-434-7410  space availability basis after February 8, 2009

Take time now to identify your representative for this event.  No one can prove  the impact of proposed cuts on your local district the way YOU can!

Additional information, including registration materials, will follow shortly.  
Call (800) 342-3360 with any questions you may have.

NYSSBA and YOU.  Defending Your District!