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Hi Members and Supporters of MCAE,<br>
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The Literacy President Petition is a national effort to get all Presidential Candidates to address Adult Basic Education. The petition will have great impact if we can nationally gather 10,000 signatures. As you can see from the update from Jon Randall below, so far 2,150 signatures have been collected. With 156 signees, Massachusetts currently ranks fourth among the states in participation. We can do better than that.<br>
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The url for the Literacy President petition is <span class="swb"></span><span class="swb"><a ?redirect="http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipetitions.com%2Fpetition%2Flitpresident%2F"" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/litpresident/ <br>
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</span></a></span>You can cut and paste the url into your browser to access the petition.<br>
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If you have already signed the petition, thank you for participating. Please consider asking your colleagues and students to participate as well.<br>
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Kenny Tamarkin
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Executive Director
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MCAE
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KTamarkin@mcae.net
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978-979-1906 <br>
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----- Original Message -----<br>
From: "Jon Randall" jrandall@fastmail.fm<br>
Sent: Fri 30/11/07 11:02 AM<br>
Subject: Fwd: [AAACE-NLA] Literacy President Petition Update, 11/30<br>
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<hi></hi></span>As of 9:15 AM Eastern Time today, there were 2,150 signatures on the
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Literacy President Petition. We're 21% of the way to our goal of 10,000
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signatures by December 17th.
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Opportunities to make a difference don't come along every day! Don't
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fail to take advantage of this one ...
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- When you sign the petition, you will be asked to donate to the
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company that hosts the petition. You do not have to donate - you can
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sign it without donating. Don't let this stop you from signing or
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encouraging others to sign!
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- This is not lobbying. Independent Sector ENCOURAGES charities to do
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exactly the type of things we're doing. Make this a civics lesson - give
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adult learners a choice, a chance to exert their right to participate in
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our democracy!
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On to the update ...
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Pennsylvania has vaulted into the lead with 319, followed closely by
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Illinois with 299. Kentucky is in third place with 217.
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In the second tier are Massachusetts (156), Delaware (155), and North
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Carolina with 132.
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The third tier includes Tennessee (84), New York (76), California (72),
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Arizona (69), and New Hampshire with 54.
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The following states are on the bubble - making a worthy effort but in
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danger of bringing up the rear if they don't get above 50 ... the
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District of Columbia (45); New Jersey (44); Louisiana (37); and Maine
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and Vermont, each with 32.
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Bringing up the rear:
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VA & WA = 24 each; CT, MD, RI & SD = 20 each; MI = 17; FL & TX = 16; AK
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= 14; NM & WI = 12 each; MO = 11; OH = 9; NV = 8; GA & MT = 7 each; MN =
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6; AL & IN = 5 each; KS & OR = 4 each; AR, SC & WV = 3 each; CO & MS = 2
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each; HI, ND, NE & WY = 1 each
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To those of you whose state is back here ...
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- Get your adult learners to sign and break out of this pack!
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- A few of you are usually able to generate more activity than this -
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you know who you are ... Please, get in the game!
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- If you signed it, get your colleagues, friends, and family to sign
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too!
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And thanks to those of you who went to NPR.ORG and suggested a question
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for the Dec. 4th Democratic Presidential Debate being sponsored by NPR
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and Iowa Public Radio! Getting a literacy question into that debate at
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this late date is a long shot - but hey, nothing ventured, nothing
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gained.
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- Jon
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Jon Randall
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VALUE Consultant
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<a href="mailto:jrandall@valueusa.org">jrandall@valueusa.org</a>
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