President’s Message
"Every day we make choices and every choice has consequences." It is hard to believe this year is almost half over, and I look at what we have accomplished thus far. We have almost half of our Clubs submit Achievement Award Forms, a few sent in "Caring for America Applications". Some were diligent in sending in total hours for Campaigning. Our submission for the Dorothy Andrew Kabis Memorial Internship was selected. We have over 11,000 members, a bit over last years membership at this time. We have had 10 young women who sent in applications for the NFRW Pathfinder Scholarship. We have much to be proud of and we are still gaining momentum.
We were instrumental in the election of Andy Vidak, and will once again be active as he wins the Special Election next month. With the scandals coming out of Sacramento we may be having several more special elections. It is true: "When Women Work We Win". Watch out, Sacramento -- CFRW is on the march.
Our next goal is selecting a page to represent us at the NFRW Biennial Convention. Applications have to be sent to me in enough time for us to select a winner to meet an NFRW July 1st deadline. Applications are available on the NFRW web site.
If you are planning on attending the Convention to help us elect Kathy Brugger, NFRW 2nd Vice President, to be the next NFRW PRESIDENT, please register now. The "Call to Convention" is on the NFRW web site. Also, you need to make your room reservation soon. ◼ Click HERE for more information.
We are what we act on and our actions tell who we are.
YOU ARE THE BEST OF THE BEST
ONE TEAM, ONE PURPOSE, ONE GOAL God bless all of you,
Carol Hadley
CFRW President
__________________ OPPOSE AB 1266!
Next Tuesday AB 1266 will be heard in the Senate Education Committee. The CFRW OPPOSES AB 1266! As you will recall, AB 1266 (Ammiano, D) “would require that a pupil be permitted to participate in sex-segregated school programs - and activities - including athletic teams and competitions, and use facilities consistent with his or her gender identity, irrespective of the gender listed on the pupil’s records.” What this boils down to is allowing students to use bathrooms and locker rooms with the gender they identify with, not the gender “on their record.” While the CFRW supports any student struggling with discrimination, this blanket solution does not work for all California schools. We believe that an issue this delicate should be left up to individual school sites and parental organizations. The bill does not address at all the potential for the abuse of the privacy rights of other students. Please contact the members of the Senate Education Committee and tell them we OPPOSE AB 1266!
__________________ Bill Deadline
Last Friday was a crucial bill deadline called the House of Origin deadline. All bills advancing must be passed off the floor of their house of origin and carried over to the next house to continue on their journey. Republicans worked together to make sure several detrimental bills died and did not pass the deadline. ◼ Please read Assembly Republican Leader Connie Conway’s article for Flashreport.com on Republican efforts HERE.
__________________ The Power of Satellite Clubs
(This is reprinted from the NFRW Newsletter, Capitol Connection. VERY worth reading!)
The Magic Valley Republican Women in Idaho is a new club - formed in 2012. They are located in a rural area in the southeast corner of Idaho. The club started working on forming NFRW satellite groups last winter when they realized that making club meetings was sometimes difficult for those women in rural areas. Targeting three communities, the first thing they did was download NFRW's Ten-Step Guide to Forming a Satellite Group from the NFRW website. They then put together a ring binder with the following: Magic Valley Republican Women by-laws and standing rules; contact info for Board Members and Committee Chairs; a membership list; the NFRW Vision and Mission Statement; NFRW Membership Committee's "Ideas to Spark Membership" from the NFRW website; a Magic Valley Republican Women's Club membership form, as well are their mission statement. They also included a video, "They Came to America."
The first satellite group meeting was comprised of six women. Club members explained what the role of the club would be. They stressed how the satellite group members would be members of the Magic Valley Republican Women club, the Idaho FRW and the NFRW, and they assured them that the club would be there to mentor them. Club members promised to attend two meetings a year with the satellite group and to be available to assist with local elections.
Magic Valley RW has now approached all three communities. Of the three, one community may set up a group and the other two are trying to get their women together. The Magic Valley RW members keep attending this area's Central Committee Meetings to show their interest in having these satellite groups join their club.
Magic Valley RW is even contacting women in Elko, Nevada, not far over the state boundary, to help start a Nevada Federation satellite club. The Idaho club members had gone to Elko to help Nevada women during the November election and asked why there wasn't a club in that area. Their goal is to get a club chartered for the Nevada FRW in an area which is very politically active but whose Federated club had become inactive.
Past President of the Magic Valley RW, Billie Dingus, explains, "Honestly, this is a slow process but our goal is to have small groups that will help us walk all the small communities during the next election cycle."
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Governor Brown’s Education Budget Plans: By CFRW Intern Gagan Kaur
Governor Jerry Brown’s revised budget plan for the 2013-2014 fiscal year has caused quite a stir among both Democratic and Republican lawmakers. The budget, which must be passed by June 15, has a number of significant revisions from his first proposal. One of the prominent changes is allocating most of the surplus tax revenues to K-12 schools.
Brown’s plan targets school districts with a high number of English language learners, low-income students, and students in foster care. Gov. Brown is facing opposition from fellow Democratic lawmakers who say the money should be spent on low-income students in all districts, not merely districts with a higher number of these types of students.
The $2.9 billion education plan allocates $1.9 billion directly to districts with high numbers of poor, disadvantaged, English language learners, and foster care students. The other $1 billion will go toward a one-time payout program called California Common Core Standards. This program streamlines all California K-12 schools to computerized state standardized testing along with providing professional development training for teachers and new and improved instructional materials.
Democrats (along with Republicans) want to distribute the money more evenly amongst all California schools rather than just targeting districts with a high number of disadvantaged students. Leading the opposition to Governor Brown’s plan is Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) who said this allocation of funds will “treat thousands of disadvantaged students unequally” because there will be less funding for underprivileged students in wealthier districts. Republican Assemblyman Jeff Gorell asserts to a pertinent issue stating, “The local control funding formula is an interesting problem because it’s not really a partisan issue. It’s more of a geographic issue.”
Simply providing funds to disadvantaged school districts does not solve any of the problems and challenges that underprivileged students face. Strict accountability measures for these allocated funds need to be implemented as well as step-by-step plans on how these extra funds to the underprivileged students will improve their prospects. Republicans in the legislature agree with most Democrats in their opposition to Brown’s proposal. The concern is that Brown’s plan unfairly creates winners and losers rather than appropriating funds equally to all school districts and letting each allocate their funds according to what works best for them.
"Every day we make choices and every choice has consequences." It is hard to believe this year is almost half over, and I look at what we have accomplished thus far. We have almost half of our Clubs submit Achievement Award Forms, a few sent in "Caring for America Applications". Some were diligent in sending in total hours for Campaigning. Our submission for the Dorothy Andrew Kabis Memorial Internship was selected. We have over 11,000 members, a bit over last years membership at this time. We have had 10 young women who sent in applications for the NFRW Pathfinder Scholarship. We have much to be proud of and we are still gaining momentum.
We were instrumental in the election of Andy Vidak, and will once again be active as he wins the Special Election next month. With the scandals coming out of Sacramento we may be having several more special elections. It is true: "When Women Work We Win". Watch out, Sacramento -- CFRW is on the march.
Our next goal is selecting a page to represent us at the NFRW Biennial Convention. Applications have to be sent to me in enough time for us to select a winner to meet an NFRW July 1st deadline. Applications are available on the NFRW web site.
If you are planning on attending the Convention to help us elect Kathy Brugger, NFRW 2nd Vice President, to be the next NFRW PRESIDENT, please register now. The "Call to Convention" is on the NFRW web site. Also, you need to make your room reservation soon. ◼ Click HERE for more information.
We are what we act on and our actions tell who we are.
ONE TEAM, ONE PURPOSE, ONE GOAL
Carol Hadley
CFRW President
Next Tuesday AB 1266 will be heard in the Senate Education Committee. The CFRW OPPOSES AB 1266! As you will recall, AB 1266 (Ammiano, D) “would require that a pupil be permitted to participate in sex-segregated school programs - and activities - including athletic teams and competitions, and use facilities consistent with his or her gender identity, irrespective of the gender listed on the pupil’s records.” What this boils down to is allowing students to use bathrooms and locker rooms with the gender they identify with, not the gender “on their record.” While the CFRW supports any student struggling with discrimination, this blanket solution does not work for all California schools. We believe that an issue this delicate should be left up to individual school sites and parental organizations. The bill does not address at all the potential for the abuse of the privacy rights of other students. Please contact the members of the Senate Education Committee and tell them we OPPOSE AB 1266!
Carol Liu (Committee Chair): (916) 651-4025
Mark Wyland (Committee Vice Chair): (916) 651-4038
Senator Marty Block: (916) 651-4039
Senator Lou Correa: (916) 651-4034
Senator Loni Hancock: (916) 651-4009
Senator Ben Hueso: (916) 651-4040
Senator Bob Huff: (916) 651-4029
Senator Bill Monning: (916) 651-4017
Senator Norma J. Torres: (916) 651-4032
Last Friday was a crucial bill deadline called the House of Origin deadline. All bills advancing must be passed off the floor of their house of origin and carried over to the next house to continue on their journey. Republicans worked together to make sure several detrimental bills died and did not pass the deadline. ◼ Please read Assembly Republican Leader Connie Conway’s article for Flashreport.com on Republican efforts HERE.
(This is reprinted from the NFRW Newsletter, Capitol Connection. VERY worth reading!)
The Magic Valley Republican Women in Idaho is a new club - formed in 2012. They are located in a rural area in the southeast corner of Idaho. The club started working on forming NFRW satellite groups last winter when they realized that making club meetings was sometimes difficult for those women in rural areas. Targeting three communities, the first thing they did was download NFRW's Ten-Step Guide to Forming a Satellite Group from the NFRW website. They then put together a ring binder with the following: Magic Valley Republican Women by-laws and standing rules; contact info for Board Members and Committee Chairs; a membership list; the NFRW Vision and Mission Statement; NFRW Membership Committee's "Ideas to Spark Membership" from the NFRW website; a Magic Valley Republican Women's Club membership form, as well are their mission statement. They also included a video, "They Came to America."
The first satellite group meeting was comprised of six women. Club members explained what the role of the club would be. They stressed how the satellite group members would be members of the Magic Valley Republican Women club, the Idaho FRW and the NFRW, and they assured them that the club would be there to mentor them. Club members promised to attend two meetings a year with the satellite group and to be available to assist with local elections.
Magic Valley RW has now approached all three communities. Of the three, one community may set up a group and the other two are trying to get their women together. The Magic Valley RW members keep attending this area's Central Committee Meetings to show their interest in having these satellite groups join their club.
Magic Valley RW is even contacting women in Elko, Nevada, not far over the state boundary, to help start a Nevada Federation satellite club. The Idaho club members had gone to Elko to help Nevada women during the November election and asked why there wasn't a club in that area. Their goal is to get a club chartered for the Nevada FRW in an area which is very politically active but whose Federated club had become inactive.
Past President of the Magic Valley RW, Billie Dingus, explains, "Honestly, this is a slow process but our goal is to have small groups that will help us walk all the small communities during the next election cycle."
Governor Brown’s Education Budget Plans: By CFRW Intern Gagan Kaur
Governor Jerry Brown’s revised budget plan for the 2013-2014 fiscal year has caused quite a stir among both Democratic and Republican lawmakers. The budget, which must be passed by June 15, has a number of significant revisions from his first proposal. One of the prominent changes is allocating most of the surplus tax revenues to K-12 schools.
Brown’s plan targets school districts with a high number of English language learners, low-income students, and students in foster care. Gov. Brown is facing opposition from fellow Democratic lawmakers who say the money should be spent on low-income students in all districts, not merely districts with a higher number of these types of students.
The $2.9 billion education plan allocates $1.9 billion directly to districts with high numbers of poor, disadvantaged, English language learners, and foster care students. The other $1 billion will go toward a one-time payout program called California Common Core Standards. This program streamlines all California K-12 schools to computerized state standardized testing along with providing professional development training for teachers and new and improved instructional materials.
Democrats (along with Republicans) want to distribute the money more evenly amongst all California schools rather than just targeting districts with a high number of disadvantaged students. Leading the opposition to Governor Brown’s plan is Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) who said this allocation of funds will “treat thousands of disadvantaged students unequally” because there will be less funding for underprivileged students in wealthier districts. Republican Assemblyman Jeff Gorell asserts to a pertinent issue stating, “The local control funding formula is an interesting problem because it’s not really a partisan issue. It’s more of a geographic issue.”
Simply providing funds to disadvantaged school districts does not solve any of the problems and challenges that underprivileged students face. Strict accountability measures for these allocated funds need to be implemented as well as step-by-step plans on how these extra funds to the underprivileged students will improve their prospects. Republicans in the legislature agree with most Democrats in their opposition to Brown’s proposal. The concern is that Brown’s plan unfairly creates winners and losers rather than appropriating funds equally to all school districts and letting each allocate their funds according to what works best for them.
