Help Pass The Troops To Teachers Improvement Act of 2009

Troops to Teachers Improvement Act of 2009 - Amends the Troops to Teachers program of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (which provides eligible Veterans with teacher certification stipends in exchange for three years of service in a high-need local educational agency (LEA) or public charter school) to make any LEA that is receiving school improvement funds eligible to participate in such program.

LEARN ABOUT HR 1313 HERE:
http:///thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:H.R.1313.IH:

We have created the following email, which I would encourage each of you to copy into an email to your Congressional representative. House members are closely tuned to the requests from the constituents in their particular district, so the more requests that each district receives the better! Given the security procedures in effect for mail these days in Washington, the best way for us to contact our representatives is by email or fax, rather than writing them a letter and sending it to D.C. You can send your representative an email directly from their website, or you can fax them a letter. However you do it, please do it soon!

Sample Email: Copy into the body of an email, instead of attaching to an email, since many virus programs will prevent attachments from being opened.

Dear Congressman(woman) _______,

I am requesting your support and co-sponsorship of the Troops to Teachers Improvement Act of 2009 (H.R.1313).

Troops to Teachers (TTT) has been very successful in assisting Veterans to become teachers, with over 12,000 hired across the nation. Arizona currently ranks 8th nationwide in the number of teachers hired through the Troops to Teachers program. When eligible participants receive funds from TTT to pay for their certification programs, they incur an obligation to teach for 3 years in a qualifying district, currently defined as a district in which 20% of the students fall below the poverty level. In many states, this severely limits the number of districts in which our participants can be employed. In many states less than 50% of the districts meet the criteria for TTT participants. The TTT Improvement Act will greatly expand the employment opportunities for these new teachers, and allow them to fulfill their teaching commitment in more than 90% of the districts in most areas of the country. Making this change would not cost the government any additional funds, but would provide more districts in Arizona in which TTT participants could teach and fulfill their obligation. Your co-sponsorship of this legislation would be most welcome.Troops to Teachers participants have proven themselves as outstanding teachers, and this legislation will help more of them to achieve their goal of serving again - this time in the classrooms of America!

Thank you for your consideration of my request.

Best regards,
(Your Name)

Representatives:
AZ 1st District - Ann Kirkpatrick
AZ 2nd District - Trent Franks
AZ 3rd District - John Shadegg
AZ 4th District - Ed Pastor
AZ 5th District - Harry Mitchell
AZ 6th District - Jeff Flake
AZ 7th District - Raul Grijalva
AZ 8th District - Gabrielle Giffords
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