Step 3

Widen Engagement

Get smart about community engagement.

Let NSBA point you toward success stories around collaboration and community engagement. This is especially important for those new to community engagement, as it allows you to model and adapt against best practices.

To better understand community-based issues and challenges, avail yourself of websites created by local school districts and public schools in your community.

Know Public Education Critics

Retired educator Elaine Magliaro named the often “invisible” critics, that is, those individuals and organizations behind the push to establish thousands of private charter schools and to use taxpayer money to fund private and religious schools. Magliaro writes clearly about the profit motive behind some of the reforms being advocated by “Big Money” interests in describing activity that is eroding America’s public education infrastructure and placing public schools at risk.

Key organizations Magliaro identifies in her post include ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council), StudentsFirst, the DeVos family, and several private companies.

Posted by guest blogger Elaine Magliaro, a retired public school educator, at jonathanturley.org. Jonathan Turley is a nationally recognized legal scholar who has written extensively in areas ranging from constitutional law to legal theory to tort law.

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