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National Education Non Profit Offering $500 School Grants This Week Through "Speak Up America!"

Have a voice, participate in National Speak Up Day today December 18, 2013!

Join the conversation about the use of technology for learning through Speak Up, a National Research Project. Since 2003, over 3.3 million K-12 education stakeholders have participated in the annual online surveys. Data findings are shared each year with federal, state and local policymakers to inform education programs, policies and funding.

By giving 15 minutes of your time to Speak Up America 2013 (www.tomorrow.org/speakup), you can make sure your voice is heard loud and clear from classrooms to the halls of Congress, from state capitols to boardrooms.  Ensure that policymakers are making those important program and funding decisions based upon real data from real education stakeholders – you!   

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We would like everyone to have a voice in the future of how technology is used in our nation’s schools.  So, please share this link with your friends, students, teachers, parents, administrators, community organizations, members, affiliates or anyone who has a passion for improving education and ask them to take the Speak Up survey TODAY

More than 360,000 K-12 students, parents, educators and members of the community have already completed Speak Up surveys, this year, from all across the country.  But now it is your time - Speak Up, America!  Have a voice in the future of digital learning in our nation’s schools by participating in this year’s special Speak Up America campaign.

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To “Speak Up,” simply visit www.speakup4schools.org/speakup2013  to take the Community Member survey by Dec. 20th!

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