Social Media
Purpose/
Create shared understanding among online communities for the need for education funding.
Outcome/
Influence decision makers by illustrating the demand for increased funding for schools online.
Process/
Engage with other members of your community, school officials, media and encourage them to take action by sharing facts and content relating to education issues, especially targeting elected officials.
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Sample posts and tweets
You can copy these sample posts on the importance of fully funding public schools, or use them as inspiration to draft your own.
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Pick your targets
Everyone is on social media these days, and that includes elected officials (for better or worse.)
Click here to search for the Twitter handles of your local State legislators, and be sure to tag them in your posts!
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A picture is worth 1000 characters?
Images help your social media posts reach more people.
Download graphics of cities around the state to share with your posts.
And here are additional graphics highlighting different issues in the education justice fight.
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Use the hashtag #FundNYSchools
We want to see how far we're reaching — show how big our movement is on social media by using our hashtag!