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Here is a press release from the Committee for Educational Funding.
I downloaded the press release from the U.S. Newswire BBS
in Maryland at (410) 363-0834.
I do not work for or belong to the committee.

 'Bake Sale' To Focus on Restoring Federal Education Funding Cuts

 Contact: Mark Schneiderman of the American Educational Research
Association, 202-223-9485, or John Butler of the National School
Boards Association, 703-838-6225

   News Advisory:

   The Committee for Education Funding (CEF) is holding a news
conference/mock bake sale with Sen. Jim Jeffords (R-Vt.),
teachers, parents and students at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 13, at
the press swamp in front of the Senate wing of the U.S. Capitol
to protest Congressional efforts to cut more than $4 billion in
federal education aid.
   The Senate Appropriations Committee is scheduled to take up
the Labor, Education, Health and Human Services Appropriations
Bill on Sept. 14.  The House already approved a nearly $4 billion
cut in federal education funding, plus $10 billion in additional
student loan reductions.
   The news conference kicks-off a day when education advocates
will deliver cookies to each member of Congress with a message
explaining that supporters of education would have to sell
billions of cookies to replace the education money being cut from
the budget.  Similar bake sale events are taking place around the
country during the month of September.
   CEF is a coalition of education organizations working to
secure appropriate federal funding to provide educational
services for the nation's schools and students.

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Nigel Allen          ndallen@io.org
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Nigel Allen          ndallen@io.org