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with other public education advocates who want to get involved to help foster change by voting in the upcoming election cycle.
Still, the efforts by CCEA and
other public education advocates to lobby for more funding will gain more traction with lawmakers if and when community support steps up.
Teachers, along with public school parents and
other public education advocates, could easily be the deciding factor in a number of gubernatorial races such as the ones in Illinois or here in Connecticut.
NEA's historic campaign rallied parents, students, educators, civil rights groups, and
other public education advocates — both Republicans and Democrats — to email more than 1 million letters and make more than 80,000 phone calls to senators in Washington and flooded their offices back home.