What Can I Do To Help?
TESTIFY AT A SCHOOL BOARD MEETING
Click HERE for the FNSBSD Board of Education meeting schedule and Public Testimony instructions. Public testimony may be provided either by Zoom, or in-person at the school district’s building at 520 5th Ave in Fairbanks.
If you are interested in testifying at a meeting, either in-person or by Zoom, please email (schoolboard@k12northstar.org) or call (452-2000, ext. 11400) the school board office no later than 4:00 p.m. the day of the….READ MORE
EMAIL THE SCHOOL BOARD
Please contact your school board members and let them know how important music is to you and your child! You can contact them at: schoolboard@k12northstar.org
Please consider also using the premise of your email as a letter to the editor, and/or as testimony at a school board meeting. Guidelines below.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Submission guidelines can be found HERE, on the Fairbanks Daily News-Miners website.
Letters should be sent by mail (P.O. Box 70710, Fairbanks AK 99707), by fax (907-452-7917) or via email (letters@newsminer.com).
Writers are limited to one letter every 14 days. All letters must contain no more than 350 words and include a full name (no abbreviation), daytime and evening phone numbers and physical address. (If no phone, then provide a mailing address or email address.) The Daily News-Miner reserves the right to edit or reject letters without consulting the writer.
Please consider broadening the impact of your letter by also submitting it as an email to the school board, and using it for public testimony at a school board meeting. Contact information and sign-up information is listed above.
Volunteers Needed!
Please Tell us how You’d Like to be involved
Let us know how you’d like to be involved with supporting music education in the Fairbanks North Star Borough school district by filling out the form below. This information will also help us keep you up-to-date on important advocacy opportunities.
SHARE THE FLIER
Share widely the ‘Music In Our Schools’ flier (download, print, or link to the form HERE). If you share it with at least 5 friends and/or social media groups, and ask those folks to do the same, it will really help get the word out!