To reach our goals, Parents United provides the following activities and resources statewide.

• By tracking, providing analysis of, and communicating complicated legislative education issues, Parents United provides parents and community members the information they need to make informed choices and give knowledgeable input to elected officials.
  
  
• Parents United provides easily accessible information about public school issues through our website (www.parentsunited.org) and a regular e-mail newsletter. The website, and Parents United in general, has become a “one-stop shop” for parents, legislators, policy-makers, and the press to understand education policy issues and legislative proposals.
  
  
• Parents United provides interactive, on-site presentations about public education issues at local parent and community groups across the state.
  
  
• Parents United connects parents and community leaders across districts, allowing them to learn from one another, replicate successful efforts, and build confidence and cohesiveness.
  
  
• Parents United answers individual parent questions, one-on-one, about education policy and funding and their impact on local schools.
  
  
• Parents United helps parents testify for both House and Senate Education committees.
  
  
• Parents United helps parents navigate the policy-making process.

We are extremely proud to highlight the following accomplishments:

• Reached our goal of database membership in all 134 legislative districts in 2007.
  
  
• Reached parents from 113 school districts who have participated in our events; 75% of the entire K12 student population resides in those districts. 
  
  
• Provided over 250 education funding presentations in 62 school districts since 2004.
  
  
• Developed a robust website where the average number of hits increased almost sixfold from 2006 to 2008. 
  
  
• Trained parent levy leaders in one-third of the districts running 2007 local school levy campaigns.
  
  
• Invited by The Minneapolis Foundation to provide input on the advisory committee for the 2009 Minnesota Meeting series on education. 
  
  
• Participated in Smart Investments for Minnesota Students steering committee.
  
  
• Invited to partner with Minnesota’s Promise, the most comprehensive, positive education vision yet developed.
  
  
• Designed the tutorial explaining House File (HF) 4178, the New Minnesota Miracle, for public presentations used by all 20 PS Minnesota coalition members throughout Minnesota.
  
  
• Hired to train the Minnesota School Boards Association Ambassadors on HF 4178 and its implications.
  
  
• Schooled multiple state office candidates, at their request, on emerging education issues in 2004, 2006 and 2008.

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