Mom, apple pie and school budgets
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- May
- 16
  As voters prepare to cast ballots on school budgets and board members Tuesday, New York State United Teachers has launched a $1 million ad campaign urging them “to remember that opportunity for children, good jobs and a healthy economy are all part of the American Dream—and depend on passing school budgets on May 20.”
   The commercial explains that “times are tough,” but its message is to “pass on” opportunity to children by voting yes. (It does this by showing a senior citizen, mother and businesswoman receiving and passing on paper airplanes with messages to vote yes, and a young girl holding a “Vote yes” sign—written on a paper airplane she opened up—against a school window.
“Children deserve every opportunity to succeed,” NYSUT President Richard Iannuzzi said in a statement. “Supporting school budgets is the best way to provide children with the resources they need to be successful, to go on to college and compete for high-quality jobs here in New York State.”
  The commercial is airing in eight upstate markets and on cable television on Long Island and in the New York City suburbs. It can be viewed here.
  NYSUT members will be making thousands and thousands of calls through organized phone banks, mailing out postcards, fliers and letters, and “campaigning” door-to-door and at community and school events.
  The school budget pass rate was 95.3 percent last year, an all-time record.
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
