Advocacy & Outreach: Many voices, one message

Below are some outreach tips to help you better engage your legislators and their staff in Sacramento and Washington, D.C., on behalf of CSBA. School governance leaders are encouraged to work with their local CSBA Governmental Relations Chairs and Federal Governmental Relations Chairs to advance the education agenda and to maintain support for our public schools.

• Contact your legislators to explain how the governor’s budget proposal will affect students in your schools.
• Be informed. Know the issues, read CSBA’s Weekly Updates e-mail, California School News monthly newsletter, Action Alerts and California Schools, CSBA’s quarterly magazine, along with your local newspaper.
• Register for the National School Boards Association’s Federal Relations Network in Washington, D.C., Feb. 3–5.
• Your local media can be a resource for communicating your message. Distribute news releases, hold press conferences or make frequent calls to your local education reporters to keep them informed of education issues and your perspective on them.

To learn more about how you can help CSBA achieve the legislative and regulatory goals it pursues on behalf of students, school districts and county offices of education, and to read more outreach tips, visit www.csba.org/outreach.aspx.