Kids Voting Vermont Martha Trombley, Tel: 802-828-2148     Fax: 802-828-2496

Let's Teach Our Kids the Value of Voting!

Kids Voting Vermont provides teachers, K-12, with exciting curriculum materials designed to teach our children the importance of government and the value of voting. Students who participate in Kids Voting Vermont learn about the election process and then cast their ballots along side adults on Election Day.

Its Easy and Free!

This program is designed by - and for - teachers.

• The materials are age appropriate and easy to use.
• Educators are on hand to provide assistance and training.
• Curriculum materials are indexed to Vermont's State Standards.
• Newspapers in Education program will offer presidential election program enhancements.
• Special youth oriented Vermont Educational Television programming will get students involved.

Program Information

Vermont Facts What:Kids Voting Vermont, Inc. is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that will train a new generation of Vermont's citizens in the value of voting, and will help increase voter turnout on Election Day. Students kindergarten through high school participate in a curriculum about the election process and then cast their ballots alongside adults on Election Day.

Mission: To teach Vermont's youth the importance of an informed electorate and the value of voting as well as increase adult voter turnout now and in the future.

Schools participating in the Kids Voting Vermont pilot project include:

• St. Albans City School
• Bellows Free Academy, St. Albans
• Montpelier Union Elementary
• Montpelier Main Street Middle School
• Montpelier High School

When: Pilot sites implemented for March 7, 2000. Additional sites expected for November 7, 2000 general election .

Why: The Kids Voting program is needed in Vermont because, even more than in other states, our young people are not voting. Only 26 percent of 18-24 year olds in Vermont voted in the 1996 election compared to 32.4% for that age group who voted nationally.*

Other states using Kids Voting found adult voter turnout increased between 5 and 10 percent. Former Kids Voting participants voted at a rate 8 percent higher than their non-participating peers.

Information:

Leadership:

Kids Voting Vermont Robert Young, Chairman Martha Trombley

Kid Voting USA Karen Scates, President & CEO http://www.kidsvotingusa.org

Sponsors:

Vermont The Lintilhac Foundation Bell Atlantic CVPS

USA John S. & James L. Knight Foundation American West Airlines Blockbuster Entertainment JC Penney

Board of Directors:

 

Board Member	Business Name
Kathryn Boardman	Charter One Banks
Rosie Chaloux	Caledonian Record
Christine Faris	KPMB, LLP
Amy Gibans McGlashan	Vermont Campus Compact
Anthony Gierzynsky	University of Vermont
Jackie Gould	Green Mountain Training Center
Marie Griffin	League of Women Voters
Earl Haynes	The Rutland Herald
David Larsen	Wilmington Middle School & St. Board of Education
Kelly Luoma	Vermont Public Television
Emerson Lynn	St. Albans Messenger
Rich Maggiani	Page Designs Inc.
Linda Marabell	Burlington Free Press
Allen Martin	Downs, Rachlin & Martin
Louise McCarren	Bell Atlantic
Katherine McGinn	Bellows Free Academy Student
Margaret Picard	City Clerk, South Burlington
Jayne Pratt	Town Clerk, Rutland
Kayne Strippe	Ben & Jerrys
Renate Wheelock	Vermont Department of Education
Deborah Markowitz	Honorary Chair

*US Census Bureau

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