Your Campaigns total actions: 8
Join the Media Team
The media team is a place where you can help us promote Patrick-Murray initiatives and priorities through your own networks. This page provides resources for you to take actions, such as writing letters to the local papers, blogging, and calling into local radio stations.
We will provide you with the necessary resources, such as talking points and updates on Patrick-Murray announcements and events. We will periodically email you when news stories hit on the statewide papers, news, and blogs for you to go on and share your own thoughts. We also encourage you to share any of your own local stories or letters to the editor you've seen published recently.
January 28th: Watch the Governor's video announcement
Governor Patrick released his recommendations for balancing the budget in fiscal year 2011 during a press conference yesterday. Governor Patrick has shown his commitment fiscal responsibility while keeping his pledge to not cut aid to local governments.
Watch the video of Governor's announcement and share this with your friends!
January 21st: Spread the word about Governor Patrick's Education Reform Plan!
This week, Governor Patrick signed sweeping education reform into law, the greatest education reform Massachusetts in 17 years. The bill seeks to give all children in the Commonwealth access to the quality education they need and deserve.
Governor Patrick wrote the following in an op-ed to the Boston Globe:
The bill promotes the creation of “Innovation Schools’’ - a new type of public school featuring more autonomy and flexibility. It authorizes a targeted lift of charter school caps in the Commonwealth’s lowest-performing school districts, allowing only those charter operators with a proven record of successfully serving high needs students. Most important, it expands the ability of local superintendents or the commissioner of education to intervene in low-performing schools by providing new tools to attract the best and brightest educators, and new supports to help teachers, students and families overcome the disadvantages of poverty.
The education reform bill will:
* Give superintendents the power to overhaul schools within failing districts
* Double the amount of charter schools in urban and underperforming school districts
* Make the state eligible for $250 million in federal stimulus money
Here are some actions we need you to take:
* Blog about the education reform bill
* Share information about it with your friends on Facebook
* Tweet this action to your friends on Twitter