Parents and Taxpayers Wake Up.....The Tail Is Wagging the Dog!

While you are sleeping, Montanans, YOUR school funding money (100% collected from YOU in taxes) is being discussed and spent by the Education Community. Perhaps some definitions need to be addressed.
Education Community: Any public employee paid with tax dollars in the education system, or lobbyist paid for by education professionals.
Montana Quality Education Coalition and its proposal named, "Montana's Promise," sound great but it is really a lobby group supporting the increased empowerment of the school system over the parents and taxpayers.
Public education is paid for by YOU and YOU were sued by a handful of powerful education professionals so they can tell YOU how much they will be paid and what their budget will be.
The Education Community spends MILLIONS every year for lobbyists to bombard legislators to pass laws that will empower the Education Community to dictate to you what you will provide them. WAKE UP PUBLIC! The tail is wagging the dog!
They tell you it isn't going to raise your taxes but in order for them to have more money to spend you have to provide it through the taxation process. The only way they can possibly say they can have more money and not raise taxes is to take it from another tax using entity like....health and human services or... highways...or ANY other public service agency. The Education Community already is using over 60% of all the tax dollars in Montana. The idea that the Education Community believes it deserves an even greater piece of the pie leaves one chilled as to their compassion for others' needs.
The Supreme Court agreed with the lawsuit that there was not a clear cut formula to figure the schools' share of the pie, but it did say...we, the Supreme Court, cannot determine the share you get, that share has to be determined by the PEOPLE or the legislative branch of our state government which represents the PEOPLE.
YOU and only YOU are best at determining what you want for your children in public education. Stand up and be heard or you will lose your voice. Write or call your legislator TODAY and tell them LOCAL CONTROL is what Montana Public Education is all about.


Elaine Sollie Herman