NSBA accepting registration for D.C. lobbying trip
Published: December 1, 2006
Registration is now open for the National School Boards Association’s 34th Annual Federal Relations Network Conference in Washington, D.C., Jan. 28-30, 2007.
Local governance teams will share their own experiences and participate in two days of policy discussions and seminars with experts from NSBA, other organizations and the government. The third day will bring participants face-to-face with their senators and representatives on Capitol Hill to lobby for education issues, including changes needed in the No Child Left Behind Act.
CSBA and other organizations are lending grassroots support to NSBA’s campaign to improve NCLB as the new Congress considers reauthorization of the fundamental federal education law. CSBA’s Federal Issues Council will make its own annual lobbying trip to Washington March 11-14.
“Now is key time,” Erika Hoffman, senior legislative advocate at CSBA, said of the reauthorization. “At the local level, teachers, administrators and school boards know NCLB has problems. The effort [in the months before reauthorization hearings begin] has to be to unite those voices and make sure policy-makers and politicians in Washington hear them. These people need to know that the law doesn’t work.”
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