As school board members, you are in an excellent position to educate and influence the legislative process.

• You, like they, are elected officials and hold positions of influence within your community.

• As the policy-makers for your school district, you play a direct and key role in carrying out the constitutional mandate that the legislature must "provide for a uniform and general system of common schools."

• You have dealt with a myriad of issues at the local level and can therefore be an informed source of information about educational policy - from a local perspective.

• You have the ability, as an elected official and educational leader in your community, to speak for and introduce your legislator to large groups of constituents - especially during the campaign season.