Please get involved...

WEAR RED for Ed or ETA Union Shirts this Wednesday and post to social media to bring awareness to this important initiative. #FundCAed

The East Bay Coalition for Public Education is organizing Fund Education Now Week from February 3 to 7 to call for solutions to the funding challenges school districts face in serving students. Coalition members are educational leaders representing the 18 school districts in Alameda County, including superintendents, school board members, students, parents, and union leaders representing both teachers and classified employees.

California is home to over six million K-12 students and is the fifth-largest economy in the world. Yet over the past 40 years, the state has fallen from among the top 10 in school funding to the current rank of 40th in education spending, nearly $10,000 per student behind the top-funded state in the nation.

In places where the cost of living is high, such as the Bay Area, educational funding is stretched that much further, deepening inequities and placing students at an increased disadvantage.

Governor Gavin Newsom’s 2020-2021 budget proposal continues to move California school funding in the right direction and begins to address critical issues impacting students and districts across our state, but educational leaders agree that significantly more permanent investment is needed to put us back among the best in the country.

In 11 Alameda County school districts (including Emery USD), voters are being asked for help closing funding gaps with local measures on the March 3 ballot.

Please spread the word...Fully Fund our Public Schools!!!

Here are additional resources for your review (including lesson plans):

https://sites.google.com/view/fund-education-now?mc_cid=6531571b84&mc_eid=a4f48b7137

-source from ACOE

Emery USD is hosting ACSA's 2nd Annual Equity Symposium. Join us for an empowering day of learning as we strengthen our equity consciousness together!

Saturday, February 29, 2020

8:00 am - 4:00 pm

Topics include but not limited to:

• Courageous Conversations
• Equity Change Agents
• Equity and Family Engagement
• Equity through Grading

Registration link:

https://acsa-r6-2ndannualequitysymposium.eventbrite.com

Many thanks to Mr. Wentrelle McIntosh and Ms. Bianca Herrera for meeting with our students to ensure they are college and career ready! Both counselors have gone and above by checking transcripts for high school credits, writing students' letters of recommendation, coordinating SAT/ACT testing, providing FAFSA events to increase financial aid and organizing college field trips....the list is endless!

THANK YOU for exemplifying what it means to provide access and opportunities for our students! You are greatly appreciated!