Temperature Check...

Report Advocacy Outcomes...

Help us understand our and your impact so that we can make the necessary adjustments and inform our allies and supporters.  We are interested in understanding your Congress people's temperature

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Criteria for Temperature Check

The detailed Temperature Check Rubric is under Step 5 on our Last Dance Outreach Page.  The criteria for Temperature Check is specific to your office's response and ability to commit to Our Asks of the Offices. 
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  1. Contact the Department of Education’s (ED) Office of Legislation and Congressional Affairs to inquire about the status and pressure ED to deliver by the beginning of September.
  2. Schedule a staff-level call with ED to inquire about the status and pressure ED to deliver by the end of August.
  3. Utilize your Legislative Director to escalate status requests with ED’s Director of Office of Legislative and Congressional Affairs to inquire on the status and pressure ED to deliver by the end of August.
  4. Schedule a call with Department C-Staff & leadership (e.g., Cardona) to discuss this issue.... AND/OR...
  5. Request that wok collaboratively with other offices that are committing to action to gain implementation.​
  6. [LAST RESORT] Be a liaison between constituent and ED by filing a formal Congressional Inquiry to OLCA.
Cold
  • ​The office fails to commit to any of the following actions and/or provides any of the following responses.
  • “We’ll keep an eye on this.”
  • “We’ll evaluate, and let us get back to you.”
  • “We don’t help with student loan forgiveness.”*
  • The office responds with a boilerplate response.
  • Dodging or deferring response.
  • They are forced to explicitly and overtly say they will not help and provide reasoning.
OR
  • The office occasionally or regularly engages the JCL borrower, providing a more profound response than boilerplate or fielded responses.
Warm
The office commits to contact Mark Warner’s, Joe Neguse’s, or other offices to inquire. Offices respond to constituents by recycling available information from an ED source.
OR
​The office commits to regularly coordinating or communicating with Mark Warner’s, Joe Neguse’s, or other offices to pressure ED to implement the JCLSA by the end of August or early September.
Very Warm
The office commits to directly contacting ED to pressure and seek accountability on timely implementation via one of the following mechanisms (which are progressive themselves).
  1. Liaison with the ED by filing a formal Congressional Inquiry to OLCA.
  2. Contact ED’s Office of Legislation and Congressional Affairs to inquire about the status and pressure ED to deliver by the end of August.
  3. Schedule a staff-level call with ED to inquire about the status and pressure ED to deliver by the end of August.
  4. Utilize their Legislative Director to escalate status requests with ED’s Director of Office of Legislative and Congressional Affairs to inquire on the status and pressure ED to deliver by the end of August.
  5. Schedule a call with Department C-Staff & leadership (e.g., Cardona)
Hot
Any combination of warm action and very warm action. The office commits to signing onto any tangible coalition effort or instrument with other congressional offices to pressure ED.
Unknown
The Congressperson has been generally unresponsive, has provided no direct response on this issue.  Or, they responded with a boilerplate, a fielded answer, or irrelevant information.
Take me back to the home page, please! Let me start from the top again.


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How do I conduct outreach?  What can I say when during a phone call?  What information can I provide my office to help make my case and gain support?
Identify and connect to your Representative's and Senator's and discover their stance on JCLSA on our interactive map. 
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