School Beat: Take ActionLisa Schiffbyline‚ Feb. 16‚ 2005People in the education community are mobilizing. Around the Bay, the state, and the country, individuals and organizations are coming together to ask questions, learn from each other and make plans. These actions and events range from traditional letter writing campaigns to conferences with intensive trainings and campaign development. Writing letters to elected officials is both easy and hard. It's a small step that requires such relatively little effort, we should all be sending a constant stream of commentary to our various representatives. And yet, precisely because it is a small, individualized effort, letter writing sometimes feels ineffectual, and this is what makes it hard. |