What You Can Do
- Find a Friend - a like-minded person or group of people that want to work with you
- Get Informed - use our website, study the issue, talk with your principal
- Establish communications - gather emails from your school community or seek the best way to send out information
- Visit your State Senators and Representatives - go in small groups, take your principal, use our Legislative Tool Kit as a guide for discussion
- Raise awareness - get creative, hold rallies, speak to groups, use petition drives... the options are limitless
- Engage the media - Write letters to the editor to your local paper, submit them to other papers around the state, invite local press to your events
- Important to know - Avoid the appearance of exploiting the children in your advocacy efforts. Participation by kids should be limited to chorus or band performances as an illustration of the types of programs at risk.
Here's what's available to you:
- Provides a detailed roadmap for organizing your school/community
Writing effective letters to the Editor