Action in Colorado

Coalition for Better Education


 Conny Jensen offers specific suggestions:

• Take some of the comments from here and other sites and copy them onto a flyer, then hand them out at your school's parent meeting. Add your email address where they can contact you and also the Facebook group links where they can join.
• Surely such comments will resonate...they probably have their own stories too. You could also compile some comments and deliver them to the chamber of commerce president, your local schoolboard members, anyone you can think of who might be moved by what they read. The movement against NCLB and test score focus needs to grow. Also share the link for this group with other educational Facebook groups.
• Additionally encourage parents to opt their kids out of the state testing and look out for their children's well-being. Say no to too much, or useless homework. A child who hates going to school is under stress that can lead to depression. It happened to my own daughter so I know what that is like. 
• Encourage parents to sign up for email information that you provide them about upcoming laws and other things pertaining to education. You can mobilize them to send emails to their legislators etc. Make sure you do the legwork for them and provide them with the email addresses of lawmakers, schoolboard members etc. The problem is that many parents today are busy with jobs, so make it easy for them.