+1 862 207 3288 1. List the three most influential business groups in your state. Discuss how they influence educational policy making. Provide specific examples.
2. In your opinion, what is the most important educational issue in your hometown public school system? Is this issue on the school board’s policy agenda? Discuss what will be required to make this issue a policy. In the appendix of your essay, provide copies of school board minutes over the past two meeting sessions. These minutes can usually be found on the school’s website and are often required to be publicly accessible. What did you learn about policy making from reading those minutes?
3. Find out how the SBE and CSSO are selected in your state. To which of the models discussed in this chapter does your state conform, if any? How does this governance structure affect the relationships among the governor, the SBE, and the CSSO?
4. Identify the most important education and business interest groups in your state. How do they interact? What are some examples of how they have collaborated? What are some examples of how they have conflicted? What were the outcomes of these interactions? Be specific.
