Initiating Action Project ideas

I've been thinking over my Initiating Action Project a lot after our class discussion on our ideas.  I was thinking before about using the same idea as I did in my research proposal and focusing on the teacher and her teaching ways.  However, I thought about what I would do with that and I felt sort of like it was going nowhere.  If I did use the lesson plan idea that the class suggested, I just feel that I would be repeating the same ideas over and over again.  

At this point, I actually decided to consult my roommate for an outside perspective.  I mainly just asked what she thinks would be a problem in a classroom.  She suggested using funding as a problem, which sort of triggered an idea.  I know that every school could use more funding, but I realized that Blacksburg High School specifically probably needs more funding than most.  I remember that when I was observing the class, they were planning a field trip to Harrisonburg to see a Shakespeare play, and they were worried about the money situation.  This seemed surprising to me because at my high school we would worry about whether to go to NYC or Orlando, and they were afraid of not enough funding for JMU.  I was thinking of maybe doing an editorial about educational funding in Southern Virginia using Blacksburg High as an example.  

I am thinking that consulting Ms. Lynde about this idea and her thoughts on the funding at BHS would be a good idea.  She is the chair person for the English department, so she probably knows first hand about the funding and the problems in that school specifically.  She also probably has been to meetings and talked to teachers at other schools in the area.  If I did an editorial, I could use a sort of comparison of Fairfax County (one of the wealthiest school districts where I went to school) and Montgomery/other Southern school districts.  I could sort of use my opinion on the matter and also suggest better funding and more opportunities for this project.  

In addition to this editorial, I could have a "speech" about this problem, using our English class as those on the Board of Education in Montgomery County.  I could make a powerpoint presentation with statistics and examples of my reserach that would be persuasive to that type of audience.  I think these two things would be successful in getting the word out.