Senator Obama on PBS 

Monday, October 01, 2007 4:33 PM

Subject: Your School may be mentioned in press release from Senator Obama's office

Hi Jim, Chuck and Greg,

On Thursday, September 27, 2007, U.S. Senator Barack Obama (IL), along with co-sponsors Richard Durbin (IL) and Bernard Sanders (VT) filed S.2111, which is companion legislation to the Positive Behavior and Effective Schools Act (H.R. 3407) introduced by U.S. Representative Phil Hare (IL-17), along with co-sponsors, Danny Davis (IL-7), David Leobsack (IA-2) and Lynn Woolsey (CA-6) on August 3, 2007.
The following is the link to the congressional website: http://thomas.loc.gov/bss/110search.html for more information about the legislation.

Today I got a call from Senator Obama's office saying they had pulled school examples from our Newsletter publications to include in the press release and they chose items that included each of your schools (see below). I just wanted to give you a "heads up" because if your school appears in a national press release from Senator Obama's office, you may get calls from the press. Please call me, Brian Meyer (Assistant Director for Operations-PBIS Netowrk) or Michelle Grimms (Communications Coordinator for Il PBIS Network) if you have any questions. Congratulations on all your achievements!

Take care.

Lucille

excerpt from Obama Press Release:

The results are impressive. Lincoln Elementary School in Chicago Heights reduced cases of students being sent to the office for fighting by nearly half over the course of a year. Springfield High School decreased out-of-school suspensions by 38%, so students could learn more, by reclaiming 180 school days that would otherwise have been lost to suspensions. At Mark Twain Primary School in Kankakee, disciplinary referrals decreased dramatically, from 268 before PBS compared to 38 last year, and at the same time, ISAT Reading and Math scores are at an all-time high. Over 700 schools in Illinois already use PBS.