The California Association of Student Councils (CASC) is a statewide advocate for youth. The Government Affairs Program Director on the CASC State Council serves as a lobbyist in Sacramento, working with legislators and other policy makers to support and draft education related legislation.

CASC supports such legislation by organizing letter-writing drives and other methods to reach out to students and adult stakeholders in education for support.

All positions and ideas for legislation are created not by any governing body of CASC, but the students at the Student Advisory Board on Education and the Student Advisory Board on Legislation in Education. At these conferences, delegates create formal proposals to the State Board of Education and the State Legislature to present on the final day. After the conferences, the Government Affairs Program Director follows up with the policymakers and coordinates students statewide to provide support.

Out of the SABE and SABLE programs, CASC has also created CASC 2020, a compilation of four major goals in the progress of education by the year 2020. Through grassroots efforts as well as at the state level, CASC hopes to establish that:

• Every school board has a student board member.
• Every school has an effective student government.
• All stakeholders are educated about student rights and responsibilities.
• Every school has a process for student evaluation of teachers.

To learn more about CASC 2020 and how to get involved, click here.

In this way, CASC closely follows its Mission Statement by providing a channel for student views and empowering youth to take action.

If interested in learning more about CASC’s legislative platform, click here!