Texas is suing Bexar County for doing essentially the same thing, but state law requires educators to reach out to eligible students. Interest is high.
Elizabeth Chalmers has just turned 18 and will soon vote in her first election — a long Nov. 5 ballot, topped by a heated presidential race. She’s working to help fellow seniors at Clark High School get registered and learn how to negotiate an online minefield of misinformation and political spin.
San Antonio schools try to combat social media’s leers, jeers and sneers “Their voices need to be heard,” said Arredondo, a former government teacher. “I’m not trying to push them to vote for a particular candidate. My goal is to get them registered, and for them to know it’s important.” The principal said she also invites parents to come to the school on presentation days so they can get help registering.
‘For transparency purposes’: Southside, SCUC and Southwest ISDs release A-F scores Highlands High School, an SAISD campus on the Southeast Side, typically holds a registration drive late in each semester, posting a notice naming each student age 18 or within two months short of that birthday, with applications attached. The “targeted approach” makes students feel “a little more special” and works well, said Vanessa Haynes, the school’s social studies chair and designated deputy registrar.
TEA shuts door on claim that charter school kept kids in closets The 1983 Texas law doesn’t include a mechanism for enforcement or penalties for noncompliance, and the state has no estimate of compliance rates, said Alicia Phillips Pierce, assistant secretary of state for communications. Whether the law will be updated is “a legislative question to which our office would defer to lawmakers.
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