Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 14:27:27 -0400 From: Maggie Heineman Subject: Pennsylvania HB2105 - TIME FOR ACTION -----------------Please repost this alert A. Rerun of article on Parental rights from 3/22/96 issue of Pennsylvania Expose. B. Action Alert posted by Laura Montgomery Rutt based on conversation with member of PA Education committee. =================== A. Rerun of article on Parental rights from 3/22/96 issue of Pennsylvania Expose. HB 2105--The "Parental Rights" bill in Pennsylvania Compiled from alerts from the Pennsylvania State Education Association's Committee for the Preservations of Public Education and The Fight the Right Network's Research Working Group This contradictory piece of legislation voids existing decisions and usurps local control. The title, "Local Control Restoration Act" misrepresents its intent. HB 2105 is sponsored by Rohrer, Gamble, Pitts and others and contains the Parental Rights Amendment favored by the hard right. Control is shifted not to the local community but to individual parents. The nationwide movement is promoted in the March 20 issue of the faxletter from the Focus on the Family. The faxletter, "Family Issues Alert" pushes the U.S. HR 1947 "Parental Rights and Responsibilities Act" which now has 140 sponsors in the U.S. House of Representatives. The Pennsylvania Family Institute has launched a new publication, "Families and Schools." The lead article in Vol.1. No.1. is by Rep. Samuel E. Rohrer (R, 128), the lead sponsor of PA HB 2105. Rohrer writes, "Outcome-based education (OBE), Goals 2000, and just about every other initiative of official departments of education strike at the heart of traditional education. The one common element of all these `new' educational approaches is the embracing of secular humanism, which is the exalting of man's philosophy of life and the trampling of the Christian view of life. . . . This bill is the first in the nation and focuses strictly on the issue of control." ============================ B. Action Alert posted by Laura Montgomery Rutt based on conversation with Rep. Mike Sturla On June 5th, The PA House Education Committee will vote on HB2105, The Local Control Restoration Act. This is an attempt by the Religious Right to institute their Contract on the American Family at the state level, in essence destroying the public school system as we know it. IT IS IMPERATIVE THAT THIS BILL IS KILLED IN COMMITTEE, WE CANT LET IT GET TO THE FLOOR. VOTE NO!! Following is a list of Committee Members and their anticipated vote. Please call your rep, even if he is voting no to make sure he is at the committee meeting on June 5. We cant defeat this unless all the "no" votes show up to vote, and the undecided and likely nos VOTE NO!!!! This is the results of a meeting with Rep Mike Sturla of the Education Committee. PLEASE CALL!!!!! Battisto, Joseph W. (D) Undecided-we need a no! District 189, Monroe County Phone - 717-787-0861 Fax 787-0861 District Phone 717-629-5322 District Fax 717-620-9091 Carone, Patricia (R) Likely no District 12, Butler County Phone 717-783-1707 Fax 722-2279 District Phone 412-772-3110 District Fax 412-772-2922 Cowell, Ronald R. (D) no District 31, Allegheny County Phone 717-783-1905 Fax 783-1579 District Phone 412-731-2333 Curry,Lawrence H. (D) likely no District 154, Montgomery County Phone 717-783-1079 Fax 772-2284 District Phone 215-572-5210 District Fax 215-560-3322 Egolf, Allan (R) yes District 86, Perry County Phone 717-783-1593 Fax 787-0860 District Phone 717-582-8119 District Fax ? Flick, Robert J. (R) yes District 167, Chester County Phone 717-783-5713 Fax 787-5713 District Phone 610-688-8002 District Fax 610-688-6266 Herman, Lynn B. (R) likely yes District 77, Centre County Phone 717-787-8594 Fax 787-0860 District Phone 814-238-5477 District Fax 814-863-3898 Kirkland, Thaddeus (D) no District 159, Delaware County Phone 717-787-5881 Fax 783-8724 District Phone 610-876-6420 District Fax 610-876-5196 Krebs, Edward H. (R) undecided! District 101, Lebanon County Phone 717-783-1815 Fax 772-2279 District Phone 717-270-1950 District Fax 717-270-1854 McGill, Eugene F. (R) no District 151, Montgomery County Phone 717-783-71719 Fax 783-3899 District Phone 610-654-1186 District Fax 215-654-1187 Mundy, Phyllis (D) no District 120, Luzerne County Phone 717-783-1614 Fax 787-0861 District Phone 717-283-9622 District Fax ? Nyce, Robert (R) likely yes District 138, Northampton County Phone 717-783-8573 Fax 772-2468 District Phone 610-837-8310 District Fax 610-250-1896 Platts, Todd R. (R) undecided District 196, York County Phone 717-787-1298 Fax 783-2867 District Phone 717-767-4334 District Fax 717-767-4438 Robinson, William Russell (D) no District 19, Allegheny County Phone 717-787-9469 Fax 787-2005 District Phone 412-471-7760 District Fax 412-471-8056 Roebuck, James R., Jr (D) no District 188, Philadelphia County Phone 717-783-1000 Fax 787-2960 District Phone 215-724-2227 District Fax 215-724-2230 Rohrer, Samuel E. (R) yes - he is sponsor District 128, Berks County Phone 717-783-8550 Fax 783-3899 District Phone 610-775-5130 District Fax 610-775-3736 Rudy, Ruth C. (D) no District 171, Centre County Phone 717-787-9879 Fax 787-7170 District Phone 814-364-9724 District Fax 814-863-6529 Schuler, Jere W. (R) likely no District 43, Lancaster County Phone 717-783-6422 Fax 772-6952 District Phone 717-464-5285 District Fax 717-295-7817 Sheehan, Colleen (R) undecided District 149, Montgomery County Phone 717-783-3038 Fax ? District Phone 610-963-9950 District Fax ? Stairs, Jess M. (R) yes, committee chair District 59, Westmoreland County Phone 717-783-9311 Fax 787-0859 District Phone 412-423-5141 District Fax 412-832-5383 Steelman, Sara G. (D) no District 62, Indiana County Phone 717-772-2046 Fax 772-2284 District Phone 412-465-0220 District Fax 412-357-2875 Stish, Thomas B. (R) yes District 116, Luzerne County Phone 717-783-1918 Fax 787-6404 District Phone 717-455-4700 District Fax 717-459-3936 Sturla, P. Michael (D) no District 96, Lancaster County Phone 717-787-3555 Fax 787-0861 District Phone 717-295-3157 District Fax 717-295-7816 Tulli, Frank, Jr. (R) undecided, likely no District 106, Dauphin County Phone 717-787-2684 Fax 787-3412 District Phone 717-534-1323 District Fax 717-534-1457 Alert from Laura Montgomery Rutt Lancaster People's Alliance for Tolerance and Freedom Background added by Maggie Heineman Pennsylvania Expose Project, Fight the Right Network