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Dear Save Tennessee Summers Supporters:
As you may have read in the newspaper by now, our later school start date bill, HB3125, did not garner enough votes to make it out of the K-12 education subcommittee -- we lost by ONE vote. But, we showed strong support and feel we will have a great chance for the next legislative session. Most pieces of legislation take three tries before making it into law and this was just our first attempt.
While we are disappointed, we are also happy that we educated many legislators about this issue and gained many friends along the way.
We will keep you posted as we strategically plan for next year. Also, please continue to spread the word about the efforts of www.savetennesseesummers.org
Sincerely,
Carol Duffin, Amy Olson and Cathy Van Meter Parent Volunteer Coordinators
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Save Tennessee Summers is a non-profit, statewide coalition of parents, teachers and community members disappointed with the ever-earlier start to the school year. Our mission is to educate consumers of the education system, taxpayers and other interested people about the negative impact the early-August school start date and nontraditional school calendars have on our students, teachers and families. It is our hope that we can work with parents and school districts to help establish educationally and fiscally sound school calendars; a school calendar that allows more money to flow into teachers' salaries, classroom supplies and educational services ... without a heavier tax burden on Tennessee families.
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