Prepare a questionnaire for candidates and publish their responses
If your organization is well-known in your community, you may be able to convince candidates to fill out a short questionnaire about public education.
They will be more motivated to do this if they know you will publish the
results in a way that could reach a large number of voters, e.g., on your
website and through a printed or electronic newsletter.
In preparing your questionnaire it is a good idea to ask just a few general and open-ended questions to make it clear you are genuinely interested in their views. Politicians will ignore questions that pre-judge the answer or appear to be leading them into a trap.
Prepare questions for supporters to ask
When candidates or their canvassers go knocking on doors or telephoning voters, made sure your supporters are prepared with questions about public education.
If canvassers are unprepared to answer questions about public education on behalf of the candidate, your supports can ask to have the candidate call them back.
