Blog: Education and the Common Good

Since starting at the FCCB about four months ago, when I tell friends and family that I am the new associate for education, one of the most frequent comments I receive goes something like this: “The FCCB is great! Your action alerts and candidate questionnaires are super helpful, but . . . what do YOU do there?” It’s a reasonable question. The policy world can be complex and rather inaccessible unless your job is to spend most of the day diving into it. Things can get wonky fast. Before you know it, you’re discussing the policy implications of a state agency regulation based on a statute referenced within another statute that’s applicable to your research because you might be able to alleviate budget concerns by eliminating a comma.