Ryle details elections curriculum and Civics Week registration

Absolutely.

First, our education effort.

So there's both the social studies curriculum and the civics curriculum.

I think recognizing that the social studies curriculum really covers, due to state standards, a lot of the foundational understanding of American government.

And then civics is supporting students in understanding how does that system impact them and how do they impact it.

So we start second grade is the first time that students are given explicit instruction on elections.

So second grade is the first time that they're given explicit instruction on elections and how those work.

And then as we move through the grades, there is very specific instruction on the levels of government, the branches of government.

When we're talking about electoral power, our ninth through 12th grade civics for all curriculum has five sections.

The fifth section is called Vote, an Instructional Guide to Elections.

And it has 18, I believe, suggested activities and lessons for teachers to engage students in that speak not only to the power of being a voter, but the ways you can have an impact on elections without being a voter as well, since that's what's relevant to the majority of our students.

And then we have Civics Week every year.

It's the second week of March.

And that's when we register our students.

We have a citywide student voter registration drive.

There are lots of schools that register students at different times of the year.

That's our citywide push.

So when the age to pre-register was lowered to 16, we really pushed that citywide effort.

And we ensure that that is getting to all of our schools by paying teachers to coordinate that at the school level so that they are spending some additional time on that to make sure that all of the eligible students are registered, but also more importantly, that all of our students are being informed.