To my fellow educators:
For the first time in Hawaii’s history, people will get a chance this November to vote to properly fund our public schools. Our keiki deserve a high-quality education, lower class sizes, adequate facilities and supplies as well as teachers who are paid a professional salary while ensuring all children regardless of their needs get the services they deserve. On Nov. 6, there will be a vote on a constitutional amendment to increase funding for our keiki and our schools. The amendment reads: "Shall the Legislature be authorized to establish, as provided by law, a surcharge on investment real property to be used to support public education?" Please see the Con Am's new website here at yesforourkeiki.com, and please like the Con Am's Facebook page and share it widely with your family, friends and fellow educators.
With approval of the amendment, the Legislature can place a surcharge on second homes worth more than $1 million to fund Hawaii’s schools. We estimate that surcharge would bring in somewhere between $200-400 million of additional revenue each year for our schools.
We need your help. In the next few months, the business community will spend millions of dollars trying to kill this amendment. Our biggest asset comes when we tell our friends and neighbors why increasing funding would help their keiki. We need volunteers to help us pass this amendment. If you have some time to volunteer, could you please click on this link and tell us how you’d like to help. Or go to http://bit.ly/conamvolunteer
As educators we want to know as much information as possible. Here are three links.
Thank you for the work you do,
Corey Rosenlee
HSTA President
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