Dear SkillsUSA Advisors:
I hope you are having a wonderful holiday season, and a productive and successful school year. I am writing to ask for your personal support of a goal that is very near and dear to my heart: that of reaching a SkillsUSA national membership threshold of 300,000 members. Membership is not just reaching a new number or an arbitrary goal-growth means the opportunity to create a larger and stronger voice for SkillsUSA and career and technical education as a whole, both in Washington, D.C. and all across the nation.
The Campaign


This booklet contains the SkillsUSA Washington calendar for 2007-2008, contacts, and much more. Keep this Program of Work as part of your important SkillsUSA materials. It will help to guide you through the rest of the year.

Dear Advisors:

On February 4, 2008, the president released his proposed budget for FY 2009. The budget eliminates all funding for the Perkins Act (including the Perkins Basic State Grant, Tech Prep, and National Programs).

Please call or write your Senators and Representative right now and tell them the great things that you are doing in your CTE program and ask them to support Perkins funding. Contact information and a short sample letter (for both advisors and students) appear on the SkillsUSA Advocacy Site at http://capwiz.com/skillsusa/home/