It’s back to school season, John!

Across the Alliance Network, as students head back to the classroom and gear up for another year of learning, Alliance youth organizers are continuing the year-round fight for students’ rights. The Alliance Network’s syllabus for the school year consists of protecting free speech, advocating for automatic voter registration and student voter IDs, developing college and high school students to become leaders, and defeating curriculum restrictions in state legislatures. 

Take a look at what some of our network organizations are doing this school year to help protect students and their rights. 

Loud Light

Over in Kansas, organizers with Loud Light have been leading the way in protecting their schools and students free speech and civil rights by fighting back against school funding cuts, book bans, anti-LGBTQ policies, and “anti-critical race theory” legislation aiming to regulate how race, sexuality, gender, diversity, and history is discussed in the classroom.

Follow Loud Light on social media to see how they continue this work throughout the school year.

Minnesota Youth Collective

Organizers with MNYC were key advocates for passing automatic voter registration and pre-registration for 16 and 17 year olds earlier this year. MNYC has also been lobbying in support of standardizing college student voting options. Thanks to their work, all students eligible to vote in Minnesota can register with their college and/or university ID card!

Follow Minnesota Youth Collective on social media to see how they continue this work throughout the school year.

Mississippi Votes

Down in Mississippi, the MSVotes team has been hard at work launching their high school and college fellowships to help develop a new wave of young community leaders across the state.

Follow Mississippi Votes on social media to see how their fellows make a splash this school year.

Ohio Student Association

This fall, OSA will continue to organize to defeat Senate Bill 83, also known as the Higher Education Destruction Act, which attacks DEI programming and collective bargaining rights for public university employees, and would ban the discussion of "controversial topics" like climate change, race, gender, and sexuality in college classrooms.

Follow Ohio Student Association on social media to see how they continue the fight against SB83.

Continue reading about the Alliance Network's fight for students over on our blog.

Young people and student organizers are gearing up for an eventful school year. With the Civic Holidays just around the corner, and planning beginning for our next big election year, stay tuned to see what the Alliance Network has in store for the rest of the year!

Kenny Myers

Director of Network Capacity

Did someone forward you this email? Sign up for our e-newsletter here! 

Alliance for Youth Action
915 5th St NW
Washington, DC 20001
United States 

If you believe you received this message in error or wish to no longer receive email from us, please unsubscribe.