THE NSPRA ALERTS SCHOOL DISTRICTS TO OUR “SOPHISTICATED” WEBSITE
Our first question, and perhaps yours, was – who is the NSPRA?
From their website:
A. Chartered in 1935, the National School Public Relations Association has been providing school communication training and services to school leaders throughout the United States, Canada, and the U.S. Dept. of Defense Dependents Schools worldwide.
NSPRA’s mission is to advance education through responsible communication. We accomplish that mission through a variety of diverse services that we provide to Our Members and to other school leaders who contract with or buy from us. With over 70 years of experience, we have a reputation in the field for practical approaches to solving school district and agency communication problems.
Feel free to peruse their website: http://www.nspra.org/ .
Here is a page from their website offering “rationale” for common core.http://www.nspra.org/commoncore/rationale
And finally, below see the post which is being sent to districts to inform them of our sophisticated website. They also offer advice on how to handle such opt out resistance.
Interested in emailing them and sharing your thoughts about their post? Perhaps you are also wondering why they feel a need to give folks a “heads up?” See email address at the end of post.
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