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WHY A TOOLKIT?
We need strategies and investments that build accountability to advance the success of children of color, all children. Students need family and community engagement and resources that encourage physical and mental health for their overall well-being, which allows for stronger academic development.
Advocacy is promoting and defending another person’s rights, needs and interests.
Parents/Guardians may find it difficult hard to speak up for their own rights, needs and interests and the rights of their children, in a voice that is heard and respected. Children often find it hard to speak up for their own rights, needs and interests. They might need someone to speak for them.
An advocate is someone who speaks up for others. Being an advocate involves understanding issues, thinking about children’s needs and presenting solutions.
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If customers can’t find it, it doesn’t exist. Clearly list and describe the services you offer. Also, be sure to showcase a premium service.
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If customers can’t find it, it doesn’t exist. Clearly list and describe the services you offer. Also, be sure to showcase a premium service.
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Attending School Board Meetings
Every district is different. Whether a parent, student and/or tax payer in a district, you have the right to voice your concerns during the public comment session, there are time limits. So review the policies before you go use your time wisely.
Local Area School Districts
Why School Boards
Strong schools are the building blocks of strong communities, and they need to be led by folks who are pro-parent, pro-community, and pro-teacher. We create the schools that we want, and that we’re willing to fight for.
School boards play a critical role in shaping our education system here in Pennsylvania and while these elections don’t often get much attention, those seats are decided by us every two years.
Elected members of school boards determine how state and local resources are spent in our schools, what local tax rates will be, what programs and curriculum will be implemented across the district, and many many more decisions that affect students, faculty, and entire communities. We create the schools that we want, and that we’re willing to fight for.
Undertand why school boards matter
Not convinced they ’re a big deal? How about this doozy
of a fact? The country ’s 95,000 school board members
are entrusted with overseeing the education of some 50
million students and with deciding how to spend more than
$600 billion every year. School boards also make policy.
Unfair discipline? Adopting a Black History course? Dress
code? School Boards adopt policy, approves courses being
offered AND appoint the superintendent.
Google the track records of current board members. If you’re not impressed with the job your school board is doing, this isn’t a lifetime gig: School board members are replaced every four years. Terms are usually staggered so that at least some members are replaced every two years. This is an enormous opportunity to be part of the change you want to see at your child’s school and district.
Go to a school board meeting & speak about the issues that matter to your child
It helps to understand why and when you would take your own issue to the school board. If your concerns are falling on deaf ears at your school — from whether your child is experiencing racial insensitivities, bullying, or being stuck in less than challenging classes — that’s when you should take it to an open school board meeting. Legally, during the public comment period, you are permitted to speak about an issue for 2 or 3 minutes.
Vote in local school board elections
We care so much about our children ’s education. Yet when it comes to making our voices heard, 90 percent of voters don ’t vote in school board elections. That means that compared to voting for a U.S. president, senator, congressperson, or even your mayor, your vote counts for far more than in other elections. And the stakes are high: This is your child’s education, after all. If your school and your district’s schools are not listening to their constituents who pay their salaries, it is your right as a citizen to be one of the (sadly few) voters to select new board members.
Advocacy/Support Groups
Red, Wine and Blue
Red, Wine and Blue
Red Wine & Blue provides everything women need to successfully organize in their communities and beyond.
ADVOCACY TRAINING
Education Voters of PA training series!
Education Voters of PA offer a training series, covering several critical topics including local school boards, basic advocacy skills, how school funding works with more topics coming soon!
Modules give parents and advocates an opportunity to develop a deeper understanding of education policy and advocacy issues and gain skills and confidence in the work you do supporting public education.
Each module consists of a video, handouts, activities and a mini quiz to check for understanding and certify your completion of the course.
For each class, you will watch a video, read the hand outs, do the quiz, and then go on to the next Course! Most should take less than ½ hour to complete and you can work at your own pace.
Once you have completed the set of courses within each module, we will send you a certificate. And if you complete all of the modules we will mail you a gift from Ed Voters.
In order to participate in these trainings, you will need to register
Developing initiatives and advocating for quality health care, child care, public education and family stability.
The Chester County Intermediate Unit provides services to the 12 school districts in Chester County.
Interacts with families throughout Pa asking how to protect the rights of their children to receive an opportunity to learn & succeed in school.
To help you learn more about Critical Race Theory, LDF has compiled answers to the most frequently asked questions about it.
The Equitable Practices Hub is to establish a coherent collection of resources that an educational community may use in promoting intentional equity in communities.