Contact Your Member of Congress during the August Congressional Recess re: Fiscal Year 2010 Education Funding

NSBA’s Advocacy Action Plan provides tips, tools, and NSBA’s Advocacy Action Plan provides tips, tools, and talking points for school board members to advocate critical federal legislative issues while members of Congress are at home in the district and state during the Congressional recess -- August through Labor Day. Visit www.nsba.org/actionplan2009 for background on the priority issues, sample letters to members of Congress, tips for meeting with members, and sample media tools. In addition, write a letter to your members of Congress regarding Fiscal Year 2010 funding for schools which includes opposing reductions in programs that are helping our schools provide 21st century skills, such as Education Technology grants. View NSBA’s funding for education programs chart that lists the proposed funding from the president and the House and the Senate Appropriations Committee in addition to stimulus funding and how it compares to Fiscal Year 2009 funding levels.talking points for school board members to advocate critical federal legislative issues while members of Congress are at home in the district and state during the Congressional recess -- August through Labor Day.