Spread the Word

Please take a minute and fill out our volunteer form with eight ways to get involved in the May 19 school board election here:

http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=cmRmQWZnMFRCdERkMDdMOXc1el9xR0E6MA..

Based on your response, we’ll follow up with more information.

If you’re interested in volunteering at the polls on Election Day (May 19), we have a separate form here:

http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=clJyN1RJVnVFTTVBRnRUbnRUdDMxS1E6MA..

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And we have two upcoming events!

Monday, May 11; 6-9pm – Phone banking: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=74675253084

Tuesday, May 12; 7-8pm – Online town hall meeting:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=78278552366

OR http://dvonlinetownhall.eventbrite.com/

You can participate in both anywhere you are with an Internet connection.

 

Thanks for your continued help and support!

Future of Pike County PAC

You're Invited to Phone Bank for our Future

Join fellow students, citizens and Future of Pike County PAC on Monday, May 11 at the Sunshine Station from 6-9pm for a fun evening of phone banking. 

We're going to be calling registered voters in the DV School District and urging their support for Fisher, Greenlaw, Lutfy, Pike and Schor.  We will primarily be using Skype to place calls. So please bring your lap top if possible, we will have headsets and wireless Internet available. If you have an unlimited cell phone plan or don't mind using your minutes - feel free to use your cell. We'll provide pizza and drinks, as well as some training. So please come by and bring your friends! You need not stay the entire time. 

UPDATE: For those who wish to participate remotely, please send us your name and email by Sunday, May 10. We will share a Google spreadsheet of contacts with those who are interested.

RSVP on Facebook or send us an email (info@futureofpikecounty.org).

DV Eligible for $3.3 million in Recovery Funds

According to Pennsylvania's Web site that tracks funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Delaware Valley School District is eligible for an estimated $3,369,046 broken down as follows:

Estimated Total Funding Amount

$3,369,046

Funding Targeted to Low-Income Students

$313,700

Special Education Funding

$1,026,300

Educational Technology Funding

$11,900

2009-10 State Basic Education Funding Formula Increase

$1,700,246

Fiscal Stabilization Grants

$316,900

How do you think this money can be spent in our district? In the coming days, we'll get some thoughts from our candidates. 

Taxpayers United Makes Excuses

In the Pike Counter Courier, the Taxpayers United slate explains that they, "chose not to answer the questions posed by the youth from “Future of Pike County” because the questions being asked were not the most compelling issues facing DV Taxpayers and students."

Read more here.

Is that true? Doubtful. 

All of what Bob Goldsack writes in his letter could have easily fit within the below four questions in our survey.

1). What uniquely qualifies you to be a school board member, and why are you running? 

2). Please list what you feel are the three most pressing issues facing the district. Detail how you would confront at least one of them.

7). How will you balance long-term fiscal responsibility, the tax burden on the local community, and improving educational performance, especially during economic hardship?

10). Please evaluate the average student who graduates the Delaware Valley School District. How would you compare him/her with his/her peers in the state? In competitive countries? How will you work to reverse any weaknesses you identify? 

 

So what is the real reason Bob Goldsack, Bernard Marasa and Patricia Wright did not respond to this survey? Or show up to two separate meet the candidates nights?

Maybe because these candidates don't feel accountable to the people who elect them. 

Maybe they don't want to answer tough questions. 

At the very least, maybe they simply don't care. 

Email to Supporters: T-3 Weeks until Election Day!

Didn't receive an email update this morning? That means you have not yet signed up! You can do so here.

From the message:

Welcome to the team. We are a student-led political action committee that seeks to shape the community we will inherit by ensuring its leaders are strong and the policies they support are in our long-term interest. With just three weeks remaining until the primary election for five seats on the Delaware Valley School Board, we find this is a great place to start.

We have recently witnessed our school board place political expediency over responsible budgeting. In light of rapidly rising costs, the board chose to rely on state windfalls and borrowing from vital reserve accounts to balance our budget and boast a 0% tax increase. This is simply unsustainable, and we cannot afford to continue down this path. Now is the time for change.

The slate of candidates endorsed by the PAC promises to find the right balance between economic and educational interests and to restore a higher level of trust in our school board by making it more transparent and accountable.

Nothing is so fundamental to the future of our community than the strength of its public schools. We need strong leaders in education and role models in public service. We believe we have found them, and with your help, they will take office by the end of the year.

In just five minutes you can:

- Bookmark our Web site and Blog, so you can easily check back for updates
- Tell your friends about the Future of Pike County PAC by forwarding them this email
- Make a secure online donation
- Connect to us on the Web via Facebook and Twitter
- Mark your calendars for May 19 and VOTE!

Thank you for your support,

Marc R. Coda
Chairman

Austin Lamac
Treasurer

Read the rest of the message here.