http://www.networkforpubliceducation.org/2013/05/call-your-legislator-day-toolkit/
Call-Your-Legislator Day Toolkit
One of the most powerful things we as citizens can do
for public education is to pick up the phone and call our legislators (and then
encourage our friends to do the same).
In many states, the education budget and
much of education policy, is set at the state level, which means it’s
imperative that we engage with our state legislators.
For those of us
organizing grassroots public education advocates, that also means we have to
help our volunteer parents, students, teachers, and concerned community members
understand who is making critical decisions, what key legislation is pending
that will affect our schools, and how we as individuals can influence the
political process.
Many folks have never called their legislators before,
or perhaps don’t know who they are. Others worry about what they should say or
wonder if it’s really worth taking the time.
Here is a toolkit compiled
by Yinzercation,
the grassroots movement for public education in Southwest Pennsylvania, to
organize your own Call-Your-Legislator Day and then get people motivated and
ready to make those calls.
This toolkit is designed to help you coordinate a
state-level action, but you could easily adapt the ideas here to a call-in day
aimed at local or federal legislators.
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