Bard School

Below is a copy of a letter from Dean Martha Olson to the BHSEC Political Advocacy Committee outlining what parents can do to help strengthen our most recent letter writing initiative to Albany. If you need copies of the six letters the Advocacy Committee is asking us to send please send us an email at bhsecpta @gmail.com.  There are four letters to key state legislators and two to your own Assemblyperson and Senator.
The PTA strongly supports the Advocacy Committee efforts and encourages all parents to send these letters now. The grants at risk represent a significant source of financial support for our school and losing these funds would have an immediate and negative impact on the upcoming academic year.
Please note that these letters are duplicates of the ones you should have received by regular mail earlier this month.  If you have already sent letters in response to that mailing, you do not need to do so now. 

Please remember to send copies of your letters (or notice that you sent them) to Peter Miller at peter@willowpondfilms.com or to the PTA at bhsecpta@gmail.com.

Thank you
Eileen McColgan
BHSEC PTA

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Subject: Advocacy Committee–sample letters
From: “Martha J. Olson” <olson@bard.edu>
To: BHSEC Political Advocacy Committee
 
As discussed, I’m attaching 6 sample letters for parents to send to key
legislators regarding BHSEC’s campaign to restore funding: Speaker
Sheldon Silver; Senate Democratic Conference Leader John Sampson;
Senator Suzie Oppenheimer, Chair of the Senate Education Committee;
Assembly Member Cathy Nolan, Chair of the Assembly Education
Committee; and then two letters, one to the parent’s own state
senator, and one to their own state assemblymember.

It is absolutely critical that each parent put their own name and
address on the letter–home addresses are essential as elected
officials want to see that the letter is coming from a NYS voter.
Parents should also be encouraged to personalize the letters and write
something about their own child’s experience, but that is not essential.
Martha