[AAACE-NLA] Literacy President Petition Update 11/16

[Jon Randall]

In two days, we've increased from 382 signatures to 803! Keep up the
good work. We're 8% of the way to our goal of 10,000 signatures by
December 17th.

Illinois exploded from 17 signatures on Wednesday morning to 129
signatures this morning! Please, please, please share your secret to
success, so other states can make similar gains.

Also, if you didn't see the six suggestions for gathering signatures, go
to www.valueusa.org and click the link in the top article on the home
page. 

One of the key ones for big big gains is for everyone on this list who
works in a program to discuss this effort with adult learners in your
program and ask them if they'd like to sign the petition and then help
them to do so. We have roughly 2.8 million students in programs that
receive WIA funding. Ten thousand signatures is a drop in the bucket.
This is a civics lesson.

On to the update ...

Rounding out the top five are Pennsylvania (107), Massachusetts (102),
North Carolina (86) and California with 47.

The second tier includes New York (35), Washington (26), Delaware and
New Jersey with 24 each, Louisiana (22), Arizona (21), and Maine (20).

The third tier includes New Hampshire (16), Connecticut and Texas with
12 each, New Mexico and Vermont with 11 each, and Tennessee and
Wisconsin
with 10 each. This is the pack from which Illinois exploded.

On the board in single digits:
VA = 9; NV = 8; FL = 7; MT & SD = 6 each; OH = 4; AR, KS, MD, MI, MO,
and SC = 3 each; AK, MN, OR, and RI = 2 each; AL, CO, DC, GA, IA, MS,
and WV = 1 each

We've got signers from 43 states. If your state is missing from this
list, sign the petition now and get it on the board!

To see and sign the petition, go to ...
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/litpresident

This weekend and every weekend until we're done, I'll eliminate
duplicates. Please, please, please sign - but just once.

Again, keep up the good work!

- Jon
jrandall at fastmail.fm