Chapter leaders: If your school is facing significant displacements of staff, LAUSD needs to hear from your school community loud and clear.  

• Step 1: Meet with your principal to discuss the impact of the E-CAST.  In this meeting, it is important to determine not just the potential impact, but to make sure your principal is appealing their budget. Principals have the ability to appeal their numbers, and as a first step, get their commitment to do so.  
  
• Step 2: Submit a dissent letter objecting to the budget cuts and emphasizing the impact it will have on your school. Here is a template to use.
  
• Step 3: Meet with your CAT team and develop an organizing plan that targets key LAUSD decision makers. This includes your regional director, local district superintendent, all school board members, and Carvalho. This plan should have a compelling story, and be supported by your school community. An example of a plan could be an email campaign where parents, faculty, and community members send emails to all targets, filling their inboxes with demands to restore staffing at your school site.
  
• Step 4: Once your CAT team has a plan, share with educators and parents. Talk about the potential impact of staffing cuts, and get your coworkers and parent community onboard with the plan developed by your CAT team. Parents will care about staffing cuts and are likely to participate in an action focused on fighting against them.
  
• Step 5: Launch your campaign with parent phone calls, emails, leafleting, and so on.