About This Webinar
Sponsored by the Albert Shanker Institute and the Civics Center, this session will give teachers the tools to help their students understand why voter registration and voting are important and how to lead voter registration drives in High School, both where laws encourage high school pre-registration and where they obstruct young people’s ability to register and to vote. High schools are the most efficient and equitable system for getting young people registered, particularly the 40% who do not attend college. The structure, support, and recurring educational cycle that high schools offer combine to create the conditions for the cultural change needed to make voting a habit that lasts a lifetime. Engaging young people in a positive way is critical to the effort. By focusing on high school students, we can foster an educational, nonpartisan framework for civic engagement, voter registration and casting a first ballot which is critical to the future of our democracy.
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