Should the Anchorage School Board hire a lobbyist?   Why not?   Nothing works, anyway.   Having a lobbyist doesn't mean you will have the same influence as the lobbyists representing wealthy interests.       

Pretty much EVERYTHING goes to benefit the wealthy, like, ahem, people who run oil companies, who are the real owners of this country (credit to G. Carlin), and NOTHING is about really education or children on one side of the conversation.  

However, managing the lobbying will keep a few people busy and employed, hoping for that mythical progress that will one day result in a country that isn't run by sociopaths, banksters, genociders and earth destroyers, in short - Mordor, Inc., and other people will believe there could actually be progress made that way, for a while, because there are no good choices, despite the prevalent belief that there are.

So go for it.    It's as good and as ineffectual as all else humans can do in the face of the ruthless and conscienceless among us.