MOCK+BAKE+SALE+SENDS+MESSAGE+TO+GOVERNOR

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= MOCK BAKE SALE SENDS MESSAGE TO GOVERNOR =

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=Steel Valley-based education advocacy group T.E.A.C.H. signed up more than 600 people to protest education budget cuts at its mock bake sale on Monday, 4/16/12. The event was held at Munhall Vol. Fire Co. #4.=

=A total of 656 people from all over the Mon-Valley attended, signing letters to Gov. Corbett asking him not to cut an additional $100 million from public education in his proposed budget next year and, instead, to return the $900 million he cut from education this year. It would take sales of nearly 2 billion 50 cent cookies to make up for these budget cuts. That's why Tell Everyone All Cuts Hurt was giving away cookies - spreading awareness instead of an impossible sales figure.=

=Both adults and students proudly signed letters. They came mostly from Munhall and West Mifflin, but also West Homestead, Homestead, Pittsburgh, Baldwin, West Jefferson Hills, South Park, Ohio Township, Plum, Elizabeth, Moon, Shaler, Shadyside, Ross Township, McKeesport, North Huntingdon, Peters Township, Finleyville, South Fayette, and South Allegheny. In addition, 56 people signed up to become associate members of the Pennsylvania State Education Association by joining [|Partners in Public Education].=

= "It was an event that brought everyone together" said T.E.A.C.H. co-founder Steven Singer. "It didn't matter whether you were a teacher or a school board director, a parent or a child, a Democrat or a Republican." = = "If there's one thing everyone agreed on, it was that cutting kids' educations is short-sighted and unnecessary." = =Thank you to Kennywood Giant Eagle, PSEA Western Region, Education Voters of Pennsylvania, West Mifflin Teachers Union, Munhall firefighters, David Taylor and everyone who donated cookies and baked goods to the event: Melissa Pentin, Jill Fleming-Salopek, Stephanie Didjunas, Sara Bouton, Jill Callahan, Katie Pugh, Ebony Cunningham, Jane Kulhanek, Michelle Blasko, Denise Williams, Bill Edwards, SV Café, Lori Cannon, Amanda Olson, Beth McCallister, Lori Jordan, Sue Salapa, Terrie Hoffman, Mary Lou Stefanko, Ryan Dunmire, Jan Blazevich, Lori Jordan, Lana Gainer, Regina Takos and the 2nd Grade Team at SV Park Elementary School.=









=Read about the T.E.A.C.H. mock bake sale in the McKeesport Daily News:= =Mock bake sale helps TEACH raise awareness of education cuts=

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