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Issue 14 Talking Points

APS gains for the real world:

  • Improve reading, math and graduation
  • Free all-day kindergarten starts students right
  • Qualified APS students earn college credit
  • Parents and teachers improve weak schools
  • More schools rated effective and excellent

APS protects your tax dollars:

  • Cut $7 million in staff, teachers, transportation
  • $18 million less state and local revenue by 2013
  • Employees accepted no pay raises and fewer benefits
  • Recognized statewide for lean administration (Ohio Education Matters)
  • Held costs to $7 per month (based on average home)

APS success depends on Issue 14:

  • Prevent devastating $11 million deficit
  • Fund quality teachers, textbooks and technology
  • Keep key school programs and add teaching time to the school day
  • Begin parent-school agreements on attendance, behavior and homework
  • Support partnerships for jobs and college graduates

Create the future! Please Vote FOR Issue 14 on November 8.

 
What's New?
  1. To keep up-to-date on Issue 14, join our free e-mail mailing list. Sign up here!

  2. You can also follow Issue 14 on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube!

  3. Download a list of Summit County polling locations.

  4. Please consider a donation to the levy campaign. Make your check payable to "Citizens Committee, Akron Public Schools" and mail to: Citizens Committee, Akron Public Schools, 70 N. Broadway, Akron, Ohio 44308.

  5. See our Issue 14 pet pictures, photos and videos!!

The success of our schools, community and neighborhoods — not to mention our personal investments and commitments — are at stake. We need issue 14 to protect what we have and to move Akron into the future.

Every single vote counts! Each of us must play a part; we can't have free riders. At $7 per month on the average home, the price is right. Please, after no new levy since 2006, we respectfully ask you to be an "APS Voter" in 2011.

There is so much at stake — for all of us. Education matters.
Paid by Citizens Committee, Akron Public Schools, Richard Merolla, Treasurer, 70 N. Broadway, Akron OH 44308