[NFB-Utah] Board of Education USDB Bridges Post High Program

[nfbutah at gmail.com]

Hello everyone, this is very important so if you can email on behalf of Blind students, we would really appreciate this.

Thank you,

 

Hello friends,

 

Thank you for your support in advocating for revisions to USBE's draft policy for USDB (8.23) called Bridges to Community Readiness-Post High Program.

 

I have attached an information sheet with sample emails as a GUIDE. 

Page 1: Background & Concerns related to the Policy

Page 2: Where to Send Email

Page 3-6: Sample emails.  I divided them into sections: blind mentor; parents; stakeholders/educators.  Use these templates as guides and personalize.  If you are an educator and you like the parent one.. make it yours! Don’t overstress or overthink. Please reach out to me if you would like me to review before sending.

 

We are hoping this blitz will result in a minimum of 30 emails by Monday as the USBE/USDB standing committee will be meeting Tuesday morning at 9:00 a.m.  Please feel free to forward this information and encourage any interested stakeholder to email!

 

Note: When sending, the board at schools.utah.gov <mailto:board at schools.utah.gov>  will send to all board members. If you would like to personalize, all board member's contact information is on this page <https://schools.utah.gov/board/utah/members> .  Example: LeAnn Wood is my representative in district 04 and chair of the standing committee. She is also up for re-election. She is a good person, but I get the feeling she thinks I am the only one that cares about this :)

 

Others: 

Vice Chair Randy Boothe; District 13 (Representing parts of Saratoga Springs, Provo, Spanish Fork, Payson, Mapleton, and West Portal)

 

Member Cindy Davis; District 11 (Representing parts of Utah County, Lehi, American Fork, Alpine and Bluffdale)





Member Joann Brinton; District 15 ( Piute, Wayne, Kane, Washington, Garfield and San Juan counties)





Member Erin Longacre; District 07 (Sandy, Draper, Cottonwood Heights, and Alta)

 

Send emails to:

1.      <mailto:board at schools.utah.gov> board at schools.utah.gov

2.    cc:  <mailto:molly.hart at schools.utah.gov> molly.hart at schools.utah.gov 

3.    bcc:  <mailto:submission.desk at proton.me> submission.desk at proton.me (this email is to help us track submitted emails)

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