Welcome to Session 2010
From Ready 4 K
The Minnesota Legislative session starts February 4, 2010. Now is the time to send your legislator a note to welcome them to session. Let them know that we must continue to make early care and education a top priority.
This year we need to maintain investments in our youngest Minnesotans, increase access to quality early learning programs, make capital improvements to early childhood facilities, improve the quality of early learning programs across the state and support the development of an effective early learning system. Despite the $1.2 billion deficit to be resolved this session, now is exactly the wrong time to be cutting programs that help children start school fully prepared. You can learn more about what Ready 4 K will be tracking this session by checking out our 2010 Legislative Priorities.
We need to work together to ensure our leaders know that investing in our youngest Minnesotans is a top priority for all of us and should be for them too.
Action Needed:
Please contact your legislators and ask them to strongly support key investments in our youngest Minnesotans. If your legislator serves on the House Early Learning Finance Committee, the Senate E-12 Finance Committee, or the Senate Health and Human Services Finance Committee, it’s even more important that you contact them. You can find links to your elected representatives by clicking here.
Act Now to send an email to your elected officials. But better yet, use the email message as a guide and write a handwritten note to your State Representative, State Senator and Governor Pawlenty. YOUR HANDWRITTEN NOTE WILL GET NOTICED, more than an email or postcard. Just jot a few lines introducing yourself and calling on your elected representatives to make early care and education a priority.
Deadline for responding: Please take action by Friday, February 12, 2010.
- • Jennifer’s tip: Contact the members of the Early Childhood Committees, and in your note remind them that as a committee member they represent ALL Minnesota children, including yours; THEN send a copy of your message to the committee members along with your welcome note to your local rep.