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April 25, 2003
Education Rally

Dimond Courthouse Courtyard Juneau: Students from kindergarten through university, business leaders, educators and community members that oppose to the planned state government cut to the education budget will meet at a rally at the Dimond Courthouse Courtyard on Friday, April 25 at noon.
The event is sponsored by the United Students of the University of Alaska Southeast-Juneau Campus. Rallies will be held simultaneously at the Fairbanks and Anchorage campuses.“

Education funding is critical for the future of the state,” said UAS Chancellor John Pugh. “We are graduating Alaska’s best and brightest students, because we have been able to offer them what they want here at home. It will be shame for the students if we can no longer fund those programs, but it will be a disaster for the state’s economy to continue to lose our young people to the lower 48.”

Busses from UAS will arrive at the Dimond Courthouse at noon; students will be wearing UA logo clothing and carrying signs in support of education.

For more information contact:

Jennifer Loesch
Legislative Affairs Coordinator
University of Alaska
465-6517

Mark Graves
USUAS-JC President
University of Alaska Southeast
465-6517

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