Communicating Before an Iowa PPEL Vote

The concept of a voted Physical Plant and Equipment Levy (PPEL) is unique to Iowa education. It allows school districts to raise the local levy to fund project and improvements related to facilities, buildings and grounds. In most other states, districts may need to go to referendum to fund these items. While a PPEL vote…

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Ensuring Board-District Alignment in Your School District Communications Planning

Among the reminders we continually provide to school communications professionals, superintendents and principals is the need to ensure alignment in their communications efforts. While being proactive is certainly important, ensuring that everyone is communicating the same set of messages is almost as important to school district communications planning. However, alignment is about more than just…

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