Let me take this opportunity to introduce you to myself. My name is Kim Geyer. Since 1993, I have relentlessly worked as a parent, school director, and advocate on various education issues impacting students and schools across Pennsylvania. As a result of this process, I have begun a new entrepreneurial endeavor, which is a sole proprietorship, called Mars Research and Retrieval Services.

My dedication and commitment to research and effort to provide accurate information and material to state legislators, as well as, local policymakers, is based on the principles of truth and objectivity founded on original source documents. I am steadfast in my resolve to provide the most historical, current and accurate information to enable state and local policymakers to make solid legislative decisions, while providing broad based alternative perspectives from the local, statewide, and national forums pertaining to education and various policy issues.

Mars Research and Retrieval Services can and has in the past provided the following services to state legislators and local policymakers requesting the following:

· Research on Various Issues Not Limited to Education.
· Retrieval of Information, Data, Statistics, and Material on Various Issues Not Limited to Education.
· Providing Written and Verbal Analysis on Legislative Bills.
· Help on Crafting Language on Legislative Pieces, Resolutions, and Bills.
· Compile Pointed Questions and Bullets for State Committee Hearings.
· Provide Q & A and Summary Formats.
·Provide Ghostwriting (Letters to Constituents, Letters on Issues, Newsletter Articles, Response Letters to Constituents).
· Provide Legislative Consultation Upon Request.
· Provide Testimony at Statewide Committee and Public Hearings.
· Attended Meetings, Seminars, and Forums on Behalf of Legislators and have Submitted Final Written Reports and Synopsis of Meeting attended.
· Provide Written Remarks, Statements, & Quotations for Rallies in Rotunda, Various Presentations, as well as, Media Sources, for Various Legislators.
· Provide Research on State and Federal Grants.
· Provide Legislative Proposals and New Ideas.
· Established Personal Contacts and Resources Statewide and Nationally.
· Organize Forums and Conventions.
· Organize and Facilitated Press Conferences for Legislators.
· Provide Lobbying Efforts for Specific Bills or Issues.
· Provide Power Point Presentations to Legislative Committees, Community, & Schools.

· Pennsylvania School Boards Association LifeTime Achievement Award (2004)

· Nominated for Pittsburgh Post Gazette’s Top 48 Most Influential Pennsylvanians in Education (2004)

· Received Eagle Award in 1999 by Phyllis Schlafly and Eagle Forum

· Serving Member on the Review Panel of the Speaker's Golden Apple Award Program for Education Innovation, established by the House of Representatives in February of 2005, this program is intended to recognize and reward successful and innovative K-12 education programs in Pennsylvania's public schools.

· Member on the Review Panel of the Speaker's Golden Apple Award Program for Education Innovation for both 2006 & 2007, this program is intended to recognize and reward successful and innovative K-12 education programs in Pennsylvania's public schools.

· Nominated in May 2007 as one of 35 people statewide invited to participate in the costing out study being conducted by Augenblick, Palaich, and Associates (APA), the consulting firm that has been retained by the State Board of Education to conduct Pennsylvania's first inaugural costing out education study. Contributed toward the portion of the study that uses evidence based research as a method of costing out adequate education funding in Pennsylvania and identifying the resources schools need to meet state requirements and student expectations using this approach.