Friends of Fullerton Elementary Schools

11/05/2024

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FSD Families, Election Day is here! Your voice matters, and voting is such an important way to show you care about your community.

This election is significant not only for its national implications but also for its local and statewide impact on Fullerton’s public schools and community. With two local ballot measures, including Measure N - bit.ly/FullertonMeasureN - for our school district, as well as city council and school board elections, there are important decisions to be made that directly affect students and families.

For more information about polling locations, hours, and other voting details, please visit ocvote.gov.

Knowing that election outcomes can bring various questions from your students, here are a few resources that may be helpful in navigating discussions with your family:

✳️PBS Parents: Tips for talking with kids about the election and understanding diverse viewpoints: https://to.pbs.org/3Cat7MR

✳️Child Mind Institute: Suggestions for having election-related conversations with kids: https://bit.ly/3OesfK5

✳️Common Sense Media: How to discuss news and politics in age-appropriate ways: https://bit.ly/3YBrIqg

We thank you all for leading by example for our students and showcasing the importance of making your voice heard and your vote count. 🙏

11/05/2024

Don’t forget to get those ballots in by tomorrow, Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 5!🗳️

We need 55% of Yes votes to secure crucial funding to give Fullerton’s Pre-Kindergarten through 8th grade students the safe, clean, modern learning spaces they need to set them up for success in high school, college, career, and life. EVERY VOTE COUNTS. 🙏💙💛



➡️ www.supportfullertonelementaryschools.org

10/31/2024

Happy Halloween! 🎃👻 We are going haunt your feed with some of the scary facility sights of Fullerton School’s 20 elementary and junior high schools…😳🫣🫨

Please don’t forget to vote ! 🗳️🙏

➡️ Whether you send your ballot through the mail, drop it off at a polling place, or go to vote in person on Election Day, please make sure to vote YES ON MEASURE N by next Tuesday, November 5! 🙏

🎃 We also tossed in a few fun photos, too, of the festive sights we’ve seen on our Yes on Measure N journey.

💙💛 Learn more at www.supportfullertonelementaryschools.org

10/30/2024

Election Day is ONE WEEK from today! In Tuesday, November 5, Fullerton’s elementary and junior high school students NEED you to vote YES ON MEASURE N. Please show our students their community cares about their future with ensuring access to CLEAN, SAFE, and MODERN learning spaces that will set them up for success in high school, college and career, and beyond.

Learn more about at www.supportfullertonelementaryschools.org

Today marks one week away from Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 5. As folks are educating themselves about everything on the ballot, we wanted to remind everyone where they can find factual information about Measure N and the facilities and maintenance projects for our 20 school campuses that serve over 11,500 students.

Measure N is a school bond measure on the November 5, 2024 ballot seeking voter authorization for Fullerton School District funding to make needed facility repairs, technology upgrades, and improvements to school sites. A “YES” vote approves funding for the District’s plan; a “NO” vote rejects the plan.

Visit bit.ly/FullertonMeasureN for more facts and info.

10/23/2024

TWO WEEKS until ELECTION DAY, and you better believe is continuing to call and knock doors to explain the importance of a YES VOTE on Measure N to support Fullerton School District’s 20 elementary and junior high schools that serve over 11,500 students!

🗳️ Why should you 🫵 vote YES ON MEASURE N?

⭐️ Fullerton School District schools are reaching 60 to 70 years in age and are in need of corresponding repairs, upgrades, retrofitting, and modernization.
⭐️ We NEED community support to be able to have the funding to make our schools clean, safe learning spaces for our students and educators.
⭐️ We haven’t passed a bond since 2002, Measure CC, which will expire before Measure N would take effect.
⭐️The money generated through Measure N will stay local and is an investment in our Fullerton community that has a reputation for being a leader in education.
⭐️ If our community passes Measure N, it will help ensure that we can get matching funds from the State through Prop 2, which is poised to pass.
⭐️ For these and SO many other reasons, please VOTE YES ON MEASURE N!

👉 Learn more at www.supportfullertonelementaryschools.org

10/13/2024

It’s been a busy week for the Friends of Fullerton Elementary and Junior High School Yes on N crew! From a fundraising dinner to more phone banking, from delivering Yes on Measure N signs to more precinct walking to talk to community voters and a heckuva lot more in between, we remain steadfast in educating our community about the importance of a vote.

🗳️ Fullerton Elementary School District’s 20 school campuses are aging—many are 60-70+ old—making the increasing need for repairs a costly reality.
🗳️ We have not passed a bond since 2002, which was Measure CC. Measure CC will expire before Measure N’s annual tax would take effect.
🗳️ Measure N asks for an annual investment in our community’s elementary and middle schools of $30 per $100k of ASSESSED value of a property owner in Fullerton. *Assessed value = what a person originally bought the home for plus a small percentage each year since the property’s purchase. This is not the same amount as what the property owner could sell their home for at the current market rate.
🗳️ State and federal funding use funding models that do not enable local tax dollars to stay local. A school bond, however, keeps all of the taxpayer dollars in Fullerton.

💙💛 To learn more about the importance of a yes vote on Measure N this Election Day, November 5, visit www.supportfullertonelementaryschools.org

10/08/2024

Can’t wait to see everyone tonight for our fundraising dinner and basket auction! 🤩💛💙

🎟️ Raffle tickets to vie for one of over 10 loaded-with-greatness baskets can be purchased at bit.ly/nraffle

🍕 Dinner from 5 p.m. - 7 p.m. at The Bowery and/or 50/20/20 raffle tickets can be bought at bit.ly/npizza50

We are so grateful for the support of such a great cause—the youth of Fullerton and their access to safe, updated, state-of-the-art learning spaces that will set them up for success in high school, college and career, and beyond! 💙💛

➡️ For full info and more ways to support, visit www.supportfullertonelementaryschools.org

10/07/2024

Weekend walking because a is NEEDED to ensure our Fullerton Elementary and Junior High students have learning spaces and campuses that are safe, improved, and modernized. Fullerton School District’s campuses are reaching 60-70 years old and are in desperate need of repair. Measure N funds can only be spent on facilities improvements, and the investment in our local elementary and middle schools for taxpayers will be, on average, about $140 for the year.

💙💛➡️ To learn more about Measure N and to find out ways to support, visit www.supportfullertonelementaryschools.org

10/03/2024

From making calls to Fullerton community members to creating hand-written notes on postcards that will be going out to Fullerton residents, and from assembling Yes on Measure N yard signs to getting ready for continuing to walk through our local neighborhoods to tell folks more about our Need for Measure N, our amazing volunteers from the Fullerton School District have been so giving of their free time because a is SO IMPORTANT!

➡️ Our 20 school campuses, which are now reaching 60-70 years of age, need repairs to leaky roofs, broken electrical systems, shining sewage and plumbing, and that’s just naming a few of the incredibly long list.
➡️ Measure N funding can only be used for repairs, replacements, improvements, and upgrade to our school structures and classrooms.
➡️ The investment in Fullerton’s public elementary and junior high schools we are asking from our community will cost the average Fullerton property owner $12 per month, or about $140 for the year.
➡️ Fullerton School District has not passed a school bond since 2002, and we have no other funding we can use to make sure our students and educators have safe, clean, modern classrooms to ensure great teaching and learning.

Please join us in helping spread the word about the importance and the NEED for a Yes on Measure N this Election Day on November 5! 🙏🗳️✅

▶️ Learn more about Yes on Measure N and how to support at www.supportfullertonelementaryschools.org

10/02/2024

A new week means new amazing volunteers calling more Fullerton community members to share the importance of a yes vote 🗳️ on Measure N!With 20 aging school campuses, a bond that is set to expire in 2025 that was passed over 20 years ago, and no other funding support to help Fullerton School District to make improvements, repairs, upgrades, and more to FSD elementary and junior high schools, FSD students NEED their community’s support. 🙏💙💛➡️ Learn more about Measure N, its importance, and how to support at bit.ly/SupportMeasureNFSD