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[quote=Anonymous]Dear Community Members,

The DCPS budget for the 2013-2014 school year includes devastating cuts for the Fillmore Arts Center, which provides arts instruction for about 3,500 DCPS elementary school students from 8 elementary schools.  Over the past four years, per-pupil funding at Fillmore has dropped by a whopping 40%, and this latest round of cuts would force Fillmore’s principal to eliminate four of the five full-time teaching positions that remain. Those jobs, now held by some of Fillmore’s most popular, experienced and honored teachers, would be replaced by part-time, hourly employees.
Friends of Fillmore, the arts center’s PTA, believes Fillmore will be unable to sustain its award-winning arts programs in the face of these latest cuts. Please sign our petition to Chancellor Henderson to restore $300,000 to Fillmore’s 2013-2014 budget, which would bring its funding back to about the level it was at in the 2011-2012 school year. We see that as the minimum necessary to keep Fillmore viable.
Fillmore urgently needs a broad and united show of support in order to demonstrate the importance of high-quality, diverse arts instruction in specialized spaces to our children's learning, development, and success in the 21st century. Please sign our petition NOW and pass it on!

https://www.change.org/petitions/dc-public-schools-restore-fillmore-arts-center-s-funding-for-next-year?utm_campaign=action_box&utm_medium=twitter+via+%40change&utm_source=share_petition

Thank you![/quote]

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