{"id":1221,"date":"2024-01-12T07:54:50","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T07:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/12\/new-jersey-city-council-lowers-school-board-voting-age-to-allow-16-and-17-year-old-students-to-participate\/"},"modified":"2024-01-12T07:54:50","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T07:54:50","slug":"new-jersey-city-council-lowers-school-board-voting-age-to-allow-16-and-17-year-old-students-to-participate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/12\/new-jersey-city-council-lowers-school-board-voting-age-to-allow-16-and-17-year-old-students-to-participate\/","title":{"rendered":"New Jersey city council lowers school board voting age to allow 16 and 17-year-old students to participate"},"content":{"rendered":"

A New Jersey<\/a> city will now be allowing 16 and 17-year-olds the chance to use their voice in school board elections.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A city council vote was unanimously approved by Newark City Council on Wednesday allowing 16 and 17-year-olds to vote in upcoming school board elections<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Newark Mayor Ras J. Baraka said that he supported the ordinance, saying that “democracy is stronger when more people participate.”<\/p>\n

“I\u2019m very proud to see Newark take the lead on this issue,” Baraka said in a press release<\/a>.\u00a0“Democracy is stronger when more people participate, and bringing younger people into the fold, who have so much at stake, is a great idea. Our elections will be energized, and our school boards will benefit.”<\/p>\n

TEENS, DEMOCRATS CONTINUE PUSH TO LOWER VOTING AGE TO 16<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Newark is now the largest municipality in the U.S to expand voting rights to young people since 1971, when the national voting age was lowered to 18<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The expansion in voting rights will impact over 7,000 16 and 17-year-old teens in the state’s largest city.<\/p>\n

HARVARD SUED FOR VIOLATING JEWISH STUDENTS’ CIVIL RIGHTS, ALLOWING \u2018ANTISEMITISM CANCER’ TO GROW ON CAMPUS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

“From the suppression of learning the truth about race and racism, to gun safety and more, our 16 and 17-year-olds have never been more directly affected by school board policies, yet they have no meaningful say in who makes them,” Ryan Haygood, President & CEO of the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice, said in a press release.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“They soon will. This historic ordinance will empower more than\u202f7,000 16- and 17-year-olds,\u202f90% of whom are Black and Brown, to speak for themselves at the ballot box,” Haygood said.<\/p>\n

The move to allow the teens to vote in school board elections<\/a> comes after Newark\u2019s last school board election when only 3% of eligible participants turned out to vote.<\/p>\n

“This ordinance is good for our young people, good for Newark and good for New Jersey,” said\u00a0Newark City Council President LaMonica McIver, a sponsor of the ordinance.\u00a0“I\u2019m grateful to Mayor Barakaand [the] council for joining me to champion this important ordinance and look forward to its passage.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A New Jersey city will now be allowing 16 and 17-year-olds the chance to use their voice in school board elections.\u00a0 A city council vote was unanimously approved by Newark City Council on Wednesday allowing 16 and 17-year-olds to vote in upcoming school board elections. Newark Mayor Ras J. Baraka said that he supported the … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}