Campaign as a Classroom

Non-Partisan Self-Guided Civic Education for All

American campaigns are run as marketing operations. They produce voters who can be moved but not citizens who can govern. The political industry is the only major industry in the United States with no trade schools, no occupational review boards, no unions, and no third-party accreditors, the four guiding bodies every certified profession from electrician to nurse to dentist takes for granted. In 2016 Imran Stanton Cooper registered the Sassafras and Maple Research Foundation with the Colorado Department of Higher Education as the first nonpartisan civic-education trade school in the country. Campaign as a Classroom is the field manual that came out of it: run a campaign correctly and the volunteers leave knowing how the machine actually works. Run a school correctly and the students graduate fluent in the procedural literacy that lets them run one.