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NEA’s Legislative Action Center
Say you’re a regular education teacher struggling to help your special education students, and you need more help. But there’s no money to hire special education experts, because Congress has never lived up to it’s commitment to pay the extra costs of the IDEA law. You’d like to give your representatives in Congress a piece of your mind, but who has the time?
Thanks to the NEA Legislative Action Center, you can join in as a cyber-lobbyist in less than five minutes, here’s how:
Select “E-mail Congress” on the left of the screen.
You’ll be guided to type in your zip code and find your member of Congress or Senator.
You can then write him or her a letter.
If you pick one of the current topics, you’ll see background information and even draft paragraphs that you can use or change in any way you want.
Be sure to put your name and address where they are called for because many Congressional offices automatically delete messages that aren’t from constituents.
Cyber-lobbyists do a lot more than blow off steam. “NEA members sent tens of thousands of messages to Congress during the fight over the new Elementary and Secondary Education Act. As a result, the final version is enormously better than it started out,” says Diane Shust, NEA director of Government Relations.
You can also join NEA’s cyber-lobbyists team - 90,000 strong and growing every day - to receive weekly updates on current education issues before Congress and push for action that will help educators and their students. For more: Visit Cyber-lobbyist Team
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