Below is a list of ways you can work towards overhauling the federal law. For a few items, we have links for more detailed info. In the near future, we will provide additional links – things like how to organize a forum (#1).
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Hold a public forum in your community to discuss NCLB.
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Persuade your organizations to pass resolutions calling for reform of NCLB:
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Endorse the Joint Organizational Statement on NCLB
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Collect signatures on the Petition to Reform NCLB
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Publicize your results in the local media and send copies of resolutions and petitions to your local and federal elected officials.
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Write letters-to-the-editor and op-ed pieces for your local and regional newspapers.
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Get your local school board to pass a resolution or hold a community forum about NCLB.
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Contact your U.S. senators and representatives about changing NCLB: Call them, write or email them (send clips and information), and set up meetings with them in your district (bring a group).
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Contact your state legislators to enlist them in the effort to reform NCLB; get state legislatures to pass resolutions.
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Parents: Join the NCLB-mandated Parents Advisory Board at your child’s school.
This is not at all an exhaustive list of things to do – the recent actions of students in opposition to the proposed immigration laws show us again that a wide range of activity can be used in powerful ways — but it could be used to get people thinking, especially people not used to taking action.