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Census Forms are Coming!
Sometime during spring break, a big envelope from the U.S. Census Bureau should arrive in your mailbox. Please take 10 minutes (or less!) to open it, answer 10 simple questions, pop it back into the postage-prepaid return envelope, and send it in.
What’s in it for you? Money for your local schools and your community! Billions of dollars are allocated on the basis of the census count – and Rio Rancho currently isn’t getting its fair share.
Currently, federal funds are being allocated on the basis of 2000 census information – about 25,000 Rio Rancho residents and 6,500 Rio Rancho public school students ago. If eveyone in Rio Rancho is counted in this census, it will most likely mean millions more in federal money for our city and our schools – without any increase in your taxes!
An accurate census count of every Rio Rancho resident will also give all of us a bigger voice in government policymaking, since legislative and congressional districts are drawn on the basis of census data.
Census data is confidential and individuals’ answers are not shared with any other agencies, including law enforcement, the Internal Revenue Service, and immigration. In fact, it’s against federal law for individuals’ census data to be shared.
For more information on the census, visit www.2010census.gov. Ten questions – ten minutes – a fair share for Rio Rancho! It’s in YOUR hands!
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EXTRA CREDIT:
Mrs. Young loves celebrating a certain holiday with her students. However, this year she is unable to because it happens over Spring Break. If you know what holiday this is, please bring in something to help Mrs. Young have an early/late celebration (yes, you must know what day, not just bring some random thing to help celebrate and no, it's not St. Patrick's Day).
Last week: Write the lyrics to either the Mathematical Pi Song (sung to the tune of "American Pie") or the Slope-Intercept Song (by Algebra Man). Even more points if you would like to sing them to the class!
Previous Problem: You just met a man who is either from Rio Rancho or Albuquerque. You know that people from Albuquerque always lie and people from Rio Rancho always tell the truth. What question can you ask him that will tell you which town he is from? Write your question down and give it to Mrs. Young during class. Good luck!
