Person to Person: Working With Policy Makers to Support Business Education  (36 pages, electronic edition only) is a guide to taking a personal approach to supporting business education priorities, that is, to creating relationships with policy makers. You can use the information herein to:

• Decide which activities offer you the best options for working with policy makers to support business education
• Understand the steps of the legislative process
• Monitor legislative or policies related to business education
• Find the current status of bills
• Identify policy makers who play a role in passing bills, school bond issues, and resolutions critical to business education
• Understand why policy makers and legislators vote the way they do
• Develop a strategy for influencing votes on pending legislation or educational policy
• Create and implement follow-up strategies for developing and maintaining relationships with policy makers.