Educational Reform Activities for Grassroots Conservatives

Educational Reform Activities

for Conservative Grassroots Individuals and Organizations

Exposure Draft - Please email suggestions to jimwoods@mcfan.org

The following is the "Roadmap" appendix indicating what grassroots conservatives can do at every level.

Appendix 4 – Roadmap for Educational Reform

Activity Level	Activity	Example Given	Teacher	School	District	State	National
Individual	Speak out against indoctrination
		social justice	x	x
		global warming	x	x
		atheism	x	x
		equality of result	x	x
		unnecessary bureaucracy	x	x
	Speak out against discipline problems		x	x
	Speak out against "dumbing down"		x	x
	Promote JC's, Teen Republicans, similar clubs		x	x
	Evaluate teacher performance		x	x
	Provide feedback to schools about teachers		x	x
	Promote adoption of conservative "content"		x	x	x
	Join PTO			x
	Active in PTO			x
	PTO leadership			x
	Support other parents			x
School Board	school board member/candidate surveys				x	x
	develop school board member ratings				x	x
	support/oppose board member elections				x	x
	run for school board				x	x
School improvement team	teacher hiring				x	x
	review & approve materials				x	x
	review & approve teacher qualifications				x	x
	review & approve certification requirements					x
State Board of Educ	review & approve curriculum					x	x
	revise curriculum					x	x
	introduce new curriculum					x	x
National	Oppose teachers unions					x	x
	Support home schooling					x	x
	Support private/parochial/charter schools					x	x
	Support vouchers					x	x
	Identify available content to fill need					x	x
	Develop new content to fill need						x
	Promote new content at every level		x	x	x	x	x
	Distribute new content at every level		x	x	x	x	x
	Finance the new content effort		x	x	x	x	x
	Oppose Department of Education						x