Fw: Help Improve Deteriorating and Outdated School Buildings

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Dear Friends, please support this bill with an email or call to your

congressperson. Thanks

School Buildings

Help Improve Deteriorating and Outdated School

Buildings

Tell your representative to support H.R. 3021,

the 21st Century High-Performing Public School Facilities

Act of 2008.

This week, the U.S. House of Representatives

is scheduled to consider much needed legislation (H.R. 3021)

to help states and localities improve deteriorating and

outdated school buildings.

Make a Toll-Free Call TODAY

in support of H.R. 3012!

Call

866/327-8670 & nbsp;and tell your U.S. representative to

vote for the 21st Century High-Performing Public School

Facilities Act when it is considered on the House floor

later this week.

H.R. 3021 recognizes that a safe and

modern learning environment is integral to raising student

achievement. Too many students, teachers and other school

staff suffer in overcrowded, aging and unhealthy buildings;

these conditions make it more difficult to reach the high

academic standards set for all schools.

The legislation, which authorizes $6.4 billion

annually, would:

Help improve deteriorating and outdated school

buildings, and create more than 100,000 well-paying

construction jobs;

Advance AFT-supported goals promoting green, sustainable

schools that enhance learning by providing adequate

lighting, air quality and good acoustics; and

Provide an assurance that wage protections under the

-Bacon Act are extended to construction projects.

Passage of H.R. 3021 would represent a solid

step toward improving schools both by addressing school

conditions that compromise learning and teaching and by

providing the safe and modern schools our children and

educators deserve.

Make a Toll-Free Call at 866/327-8670 in

support of H.R. 3012 today!

Thanks for your advocacy on this important

issue.

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