Friday, January 27, 2012

IEA leadership wants a stay-at-home Lobby Day? Here’s a New Business Item. « Fred Klonsky

IEA leadership wants a stay-at-home Lobby Day? Here’s a New Business Item. « Fred Klonsky:

IEA leadership wants a stay-at-home Lobby Day? Here’s a New Business Item.

Tim Furman at School Tech Connect also wonders why we’re not heading for Springfield in May for Lobby Day.

But he has a suggestion:

It all seems like a golden opportunity to move forward with the suggestion I keep making about “back-home lobbying.” If it’s such a good strategy, then it should be supported.

My colleagues in the IFT and the IEA will soon be electing delegates to their respective annual meetings. I would humbly suggest that someone in these organization organize a new business item that calls for the creation of a state-wide, opt-in database that lets members see who else lives in their legislative