San Diego Union Tribune, Los Angeles Daily News, The Christian Science Monitor, San Jose Mercury News, Orange County Register, New York Post, U.S. News & World Report, Investor’s Business Daily, Forbes, Human Events, Fox and Hounds, Huffington Post, School Reform News, California Political Review, Clarion Call, LA School Report, Breitbart.com, Dropout Nation, CalWatchdog and other publications, as well as Rick Hess’ The Cage Busting Teacher. He has blogged at Union Watch since 2010 and in May 2011 became a regular contributor to City Journal, the Manhattan Institute’s policy publication. Sand has appeared on numerous broadcast news programs and talk radio shows in Southern California and nationally.

Sand regularly speaks to political, religious and social groups and has participated in panel discussions and events focusing on education reform efforts and the impact of teachers unions on public education. In March 2010, Sand participated in a debate hosted by the non-profit Intelligence Squared, an organization that hosts Oxford-style debates, which was nationally broadcast on Bloomberg TV and NPR, as well as covered by Newsweek. Sand and his teammates – Terry Moe of the Hoover Institution and former U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige, opposed the proposition – Don’t Blame Teachers Unions For Our Failing Schools. The pro-union team included Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers. In August 2010, he was on a panel at the Where’s the Outrage?conference in San Francisco, where he spoke about how charter school operators can best deal with teachers unions. Beginning in 2011, he appeared on panels in Oklahoma City, Washington D.C., Los Angeles, San Diego, San Mateo and Santa Clara in support of National School Choice Week. Additionally, CTEN hosted two informational events in 2011 – one addressing the radical agenda that is prevalent in many schools these days and the other concerning itself with California’s Parent Trigger law. The latter event was covered by both the English and Spanish language press. In March 2013, Sand joined Terry Moe, Gloria Romero and CTA president Dean Vogel in Silicon Valley for a lively discussion on how to fix education in California. In 2015, CTEN and the Association of American Educators hosted an informational event which examined the Friedrichs and Bain lawsuits. In March 2016, Sand debated CTA president Eric Heins on KOCE in Orange County about the merits of the Friedrichs case.

Sand has also worked with other organizations to present accurate information about the relationship between teachers and their unions, in 2008 assisting in the production of a video for the Center for Union Facts in which a group of teachers speak truthfully about the teachers unions. Additionally, he has been an advisor to student and parent advocacy groups, lawyers, and education and public policy experts. In 2011, he joined the National School Choice Week planning committee and became a board member of Choice Media and the Association of American Educators. In 2014, he became a policy advisor at the Heartland Institute. CTEN maintains an active and strong new media presence, reaching out to teachers and those interested in education reform across the USA, and around the world, with its popular Facebook page, whose members include teachers, writers, think-tankers, and political activists.