How You Can Help
Your Advocacy Toolkit
Call or email your Members of Congress and ask them to vote for funding bills that increase the federal investment in education. Ask to meet with them when they are in your home town. Here is a sample letter.
You can call the Congressional switchboard at 202-224-3121 or locate your Members of Congress at the links below:
Use our advocacy fact sheets — 5¢ Makes Sense, Myth v Fact, Federal Investment in Education — when you write a letter to the editor of your local paper or blog about the need to increase the federal education investment.
Use our funding charts — we have shareable charts (scroll down to “2017 Advocacy Toolkit charts”) on past and current funding for federal education.
#HearOurEdStories
Social Media Toolkit to let Congress know why education funding matters to you
5¢ MAKES SENSE
Increase our investment in education to 5 cents of every federal dollar
CEF Gala
September 26, 2018, at Union Station
Tickets, sponsorship, and full information.
Charts & Resources for FY 2018 and 2019
Find an expert, view federal budget info, and browse charts and graphics.
CEF Budget Book
Access CEF’s analyses of the President’s budget request from 2011 to the present.