Why organize around public education issues?
4 Getting Started 5 Organizational Structure 6 Recruitment 7 Sustaining the Group 8 Leadership 9 Meeting 10 Facilitation 11 Tackling an Issue 12 Research 12 Power Analysis 13 Planning 14 Strategic Thinking 16 Introduction Research shows that wealth and higher education are the key factors in American political participation. The privileged are more politically active and are increasingly well organized to impose their demands on the government. As a result, public officials are more responsive to wealthy citizens than they are to average citizens. When people become involved in their communities they become a powerful force for dealing with local problems. Through coordinated planning, research and action, you can accomplish what individuals working alone could not. When people decide they are going to be part of the solution, local problems start getting solved. When they actually begin to work with other individuals, schools, associations, businesses, and government service providers
