Kids Voting Durham County (NC) hosted a candidate forum recently. 13 of the 14 candidates for County Commissioners and two of the four school board candidates attended the roundtable-style event. More than two dozen inquisitive youths – ranging from elementary schoolers to high school seniors – were split among four tables, with groups of candidates [...]
“Doing Your Part” was the theme of the Kids Voting Mesa County (Colorado) February banquet at Colorado Mesa University. More than 200 community members, students, and educators were in attendance. K-12 students were honored for “doing their part”, because of their work with bullied special education students, serving as homeless helpers and reading mentors, leaving [...]
This year’s winners for the 6th – 8th grade category are Madison Dowdy, Hunter Harvey, Elizabeth Hoepner, and Alisa Reneau from Lithia, Florida. Kristy Verdi is the project sponsor and social studies teacher at Randall Middle School. This project not only showed collaboration by involving the entire middle school, but also impacted the community. These students created [...]
This year’s winners for the 9th – 12th grade range are Tiara Brooks, Jessica Ireland, Tori Wilson, Michael Himes and Stephanie Walker from Armwood High School in Seffner, Florida. The sponsoring teacher is Tony Pirotta. These students presented an idea for a law, which requested the proper rights be granted to a seemingly invisible population of young [...]
KVUSA is pleased to announce that Kay Slone is the January Educator of the Month. Ms. Slone is a social studies teach at Eastmoor Academy, which is part of Kids Voting Central Ohio. As an AP government teacher in an urban Columbus City School, Kay has committed herself to teaching students how to find their [...]
Here's a link to an article about 'No Citizen Left Behind' from Boston Public Radio http://t.co/D4ZImY6K May's curriculum theme is "working together." Visit our website to find lessons that teach this theme. http://t.co/QvqVrGBk© Copyright Kids Voting USA 2005-2012
