Green Schools Outreach Network is proud to announce that the Green Local School District has received the designation of EXCELLENT with DISTINCTION on the 2010-2011 school district report card.  This is the result of dedication and hard work on behalf of our staff , students and community!  Congratulations!

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Welcome to the 2011-2012 school year!  The Green Schools Outreach Network looks forward to seeing you at many of the activities and events scheduled for the start of the school year.  Your presence and participation in our children’s Excellent with Distinction education is a great way to support their learning and make our schools and community even stronger.

Principal Mark Booth welcomes parents & students to Green Intermediate School

As the election results started rolling in last night, news of an Issue 8 victory spread like wildfire among Green Local Schools students on the popular social networking site, Facebook. Our kids truly understood what was at stake, and they thank you for your continued support of Green Local Schools!

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Issue 8 - Green LSD
Proposed Tax Levy, Emer. Req., Addnl., 6.75 Mills, 5 Yrs
(Vote For Not More Than )  1
(WITH 25 OF 25 PRECINCTS COUNTED)
FOR THE TAX LEVY .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .     5,456   64.39
AGAINST THE TAX LEVY.  .  .  .  .  .  .     3,017   35.61
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View results from the Summit County Board of Elections

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Green Community,

It is difficult to comprehend the time, effort, energy and sheer passion that have been invested in the last two months in the Green Local Schools Issue 8 campaign. Words can not convey the vast sense of pride and gratitude GSON feels for our community at the end of this Election Day. Thank you for believing in the future of our students and demonstrating those beliefs at the polls.

There are many people to thank who have made the Issue 8 campaign a success. Let’s start with Superintendent Nutter and our Board of Education. Their thoughtful dialogue and willingness to listen to all school district stakeholders resulted in an open flow of communication as we began to look for ways keep our school system strong and preserve Green’s tradition of academic excellence. Thanks also to our partners in this community, Mayor Norton and the City of Green. Your strong support of Issue 8 played a vital role in our campaign.

GSON would also like to offer a well-deserved thank you to our levy committee tri-chairs. Their tireless efforts and countless hours of service are indicative of what great leadership looks like in action. They often get little recognition for their work, nor do they ask for it, but without them, the Issue 8 campaign would not have run as smoothly nor been as successful as it was.

The Green Schools Outreach Network has met regularly since the November levy defeat and has provided the energy to maintain solid momentum during the weeks leading up to the election. This group clearly represents the best of Green. The members of this committee, which include city leaders, school district employees, parents, students and community business leaders, validate that the best ideas and strategies are born from diverse points of view.

Furthermore, our campaign committee was able to translate the district’s urgent need for funds by branching out to community organizations, businesses, clubs, teachers, students, the news media, school events and community activities. All of these connections resulted in countless individuals who agreed to talk with their friends and neighbors about our school system and enabled positive momentum to build in support of Issue 8.

It is impossible to thank each and every one of you who worked to pass Issue 8 by name. But, of course, that is the essence of Green: many individual threads woven together to create a strong fabric for the future of our children and community.

Please accept GSON’s heartfelt gratitude for your continued support of our excellent school system. We pledge to work tirelessly with the members of our school system and community to operate our district in a fiscally responsible manner while providing the highest quality educational opportunities for Green’s children.

Thank you!

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If you are looking for ways to help get ISSUE 8 passed today, here are some things you can do.

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• VOTE YES!
• Be a part of the Election Day Visibility effort.  Head to the City Administration Building to get a sign and a location assignment.
• Make sure every positive voter you know gets out and votes.
• Come to Chenoweth Country Club this evening for the election results watch party.

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Keep the faith!

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GO BULLDOGS! WE ARE GREEN!

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Polling location changes!

• 1 – E will now vote at Green Branch Library;
• 4 F will vote at the Old Green Administration Building; and
• 4 – D will vote at Green Senior Center

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Ride to the Polls!

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I challenge you to show up at the elections tomorrow and prove to the naysayers in our community that you do care, you will vote and you will support and pass our school levy!

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Dear Green Local School Parents and Community Members,

As we sit here poised on the eve of tomorrow’s special school levy election, I would like to issue you a very important personal challenge.

As many of you already know, I am a GSON volunteer and I have made it out for every canvassing effort.  I have talked to numerous adults in our community: some with kids in the schools, some that send their kids to private schools and some who do not have kids in any schools.  Although much of the discussion has been positive, the individuals who have expressed negative opinions about the levy’s chances for passage have a recurring theme.  They believe that the levy is going to fail because as they state it, “Parents and young adults simply do not show up to vote”.  They usually wish me the best of luck in my future endeavors and wave me on to the next house.

Each time I heard this point made I always asked myself, how can that be?  If you have children who are going to be impacted negatively by the levy failure and you are a registered voter that supports the levy, why would you not show up to vote?  So many people say, “My vote is not going to make the difference.”  Or “I had something else I had to do.”  We cannot allow these thoughts to deter us from going to the polls and supporting the levy tomorrow.

We teach our children to stand up for their rights and to participate in our democratic process by taking an active part in important decisions.  But yet, so many adults relinquish their own responsibilities in making our democratic process work.  Your participation in tomorrow’s levy by voting is critical to all students and members of the Green community.  Every vote in this election is going to count!  We only lost by 627 votes in November, 2010 with a 50-55% parent turn out.  That means we would have needed to convert 314 of those 627 NO votes into YES votes for the levy to have passed in November…OR we needed to get 628 additional voters who supported the levy to vote.  That’s where I want to challenge you.  I challenge you to show up at the elections tomorrow and prove to the naysayers in our community that you do care, you will vote and you will support and pass our school levy!  Also, we need for you to make sure that friends, neighbors and family members who are also registered voters in Green who support the passage of the levy also go to the polls and vote.  The May 3rd vote is now and the need is real!  Please go to your polls tomorrow and do the right thing for the students and the Green community.  You CAN make a difference and you DO count!  And we are counting on you!

Please go to http://greenforkids.org/ for updated information on Issue 8.  Contact Superintendent Nutter (nuttermike@greenlocalschools.org) or the Levy Tri-Chairs (gsonwebcontact@gmail.com) with questions concerning Issue 8.

Sincerely,
Scott Shank
First Grade Teacher
Green Primary School
GSON Member

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