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MILITARY
RECRUITER ALERT!!!!
Your
high school could be providing military recruiters with your child’s
private contact information!
Under
the 2002 “No Child Left Behind” law, all public high
schools MUST provide their kids’ names, home phone numbers,
and home addresses to military recruiters or lose federal funding.
How
can you make sure your child’s personal information stays
protected from military recruiters?
Sign
this “Opt-Out”
form and send it to your child’s high school. Families have
a RIGHT under the “No Child Left Behind” law to prohibit
the release of personal information for military recruitment purposes.
BUT,
you have to let the Bellingham school district know in writing by
SEPTEMBER
15TH, 2005.
Click
here for a Word document of the form.
Other
school districts may have different deadlines; call yours to find
out.
LIST OF WHATCOM
COUNTY DISTRICTS
Bellingham
School District:
(360) – 676-6400
Bellingham
Superintendent: (360) – 676-6501
Bellingham
High School:
(360) -676-6575
Sehome
High School:
(360) – 676-6481
Squalicum
High School:
(360) – 676-6471
Blaine
School District:
(360) -332-5881
Blaine
High School:
(360) – 332-6045
Ferndale
School District:
(360) – 383-9200
Ferndale
Superintendent: (360) – 383-9207
Ferndale
High School:
(360) – 383-9240
Clearview
High School:
(360) – 383-9345
Windward
High School:
(360) – 383-9150
Lummi
Nation Schools: (360) – 758-3149
Lummi
High School:
(360) – 758-3147
Lynden
School District:
(360) – 354-4443
Lynden
High School:
(360) – 354-4401
Lynden
Christian
Schools:
(360) – 318-9525
Lynden
Christian High
School: (360) – 354-3221
Meridian
School District:
(360) -398-7111
Meridian
High School:
(360) – 398-8111
Mount
Baker School
District: (360) – 383-2000
Mount Baker High School: (360) – 383-2015
Nooksack
Valley
School District:
(360) – 988-4754
Nooksack
Valley High
School: (360) – 988-2641
Help
create the Peace Tax Fund by urging Representative Rick Larsen
to co-sponsor the Religious Freedom Peace Tax Fund when it is re-introduced
in Congress this year. The bill number was H.R.2037
in the 108th Congress. The purpose of the bill
is to: affirm the religious freedom of taxpayers who are conscientiously
opposed to participation in war, to provide that the income, estate,
or gift tax payments of such taxpayers be used for nonmilitary purposes,
to create the Religious Freedom Peace Tax Fund to receive such tax
payments, to improve revenue collection, and for other purposes.
For more information, visit www.peacetaxfund.org
or check out our video on this topic. Rick.Larsen@mail.house.gov
733-4500 (Bellingham office)
Urge
Congress to Appoint a Special Prosecutor to Investigate Use of Torture.
Join The Center for Constitutional Rights and Human Rights Watch
ns calling for the appointment of a Special Prosecutor to conduct
a full, independent and public inquiry into the role of high-ranking
U.S. officials in the abuse and torture of detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan,
Guantánamo and elsewhere around the world. Send a message
online at
http://www.ccr-ny.org/v2/home.asp
or contact your representatives by telephone:
Rep.
Rick Larsen: 733-4500 (Bellingham office)
Senator
Patty Murray: 1-206-553-5545 (Seattle office)
Senator
Maria Cantwell: 1-888-648-7328
Thank
Senator Murray for Advocating for Veterans Health Care. Unfortunately,
Murray’s amendment to boost funding for vets by $2 billion
was defeated
for the second time
by a vote of 54-46 with all but one Republican member of the Senate
voting against the veterans’ funding. “I am extremely
disappointed that Republicans in the Senate have chosen to turn
their backs on our veterans,” Murray said. http://murray.senate.gov/email/index.cfm
or 1-206-553-5545 (Seattle office)
Buy
Wonderful Gifts that Promote Peace through The Peace Company.
Books, peace and world flags, curricula materials, and other goodies.
Visit www.thepeacecompany.com
or call toll-free for information: 1-888-455-5355
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