If you really want to support inner city kids, support this!

New Jersey Catholic Conference
149 North Warren Street • Trenton, New Jersey 08608 (609) 989-1120 • Fax (609) 989-1152
SUPPORT S1607
The Urban Enterprise Zone Jobs Scholarship Act
ISSUE: S1607 (The Urban Enterprise Zone Jobs Scholarship Act) has been sent to the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee as the next step in its legislative journey. The bill will provide scholarships funded through tax credits to corporations in several Urban Enterprise Zones where children are struggling to obtain a quality education.
OUR POSITION: The New Jersey Catholic Conference and the New Jersey Network of Catholic School Families have supported this legislation from its inception. Children in these designated districts need the same opportunities for school choice that children in other districts in New Jersey have as a result of their ability to enroll in another school when they are having difficulties in their current school.
ACTION: Please do the following as quickly as possible:
1-Call, email or fax the member of the Senate Budget and Appropriation Committee in your district (see attached list) to ask him/her to support the bill.
2-If you do not have a member of the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee in your district, please call your own State Senator and ask that he or she speak with colleagues on the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee to vote favorably on S1607. You can search for your Senator by municipality at http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/districts/municipalities.asp#T. This expression of support will be important as the bill continues its legislative journey through the New Jersey Senate.
3-Call the office of Senator Barbara Buono, chair of the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee and ask that she schedule the bill for a hearing as soon as possible. Q & A ON THE LEGISLATION ARE AVAILABLE AT THE NJCC WEBSITE: www.njcathconf.com. They were also attached to the Action Alert which was issued on May 12, 2008, addressing specific action steps regarding the Assembly version of the bill.
PLEASE INVITE FAMILY AND FRIENDS TO JOIN YOU IN THIS EFFORT.
Thank you for your immediate cooperation with this request.
Representing the Archdiocese of Newark, Diocese of Camden, Diocese of Metuchen,
Diocese of Paterson, Diocese of Trenton, Byzantine Catholic Eparchy of Passaic and
Our Lady of Deliverance Syriac Catholic Diocese

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