The Smorgasbord of Douglas Bell

Yep, there are exactly two months left until I fly off to start the next chapter of my life in Washington, DC. It’s bewildering how this summer is moving so fast and so slow at the same time–it’s already been seventeen days since my graduation from high school. Here’s a taste at what I’ve had the fun of doing for over these past two weeks.

Only three days after I graduated, I spent Monday, June 1st on a day trip to Sacramento, where the State Conference Committee on the Budget held a public hearing on cuts affecting education; folks from the California State PTA were asking members to come and support the PTA’s positions on the budget cuts, and I couldn’t pass up the chance to work with the state leaders one last time. That trip and my testimony at the hearing earned me two seconds on television and top quote in an Education Coalition press release. Not bad.
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