I wanted to share some big news I’ve written about in more detail on the Democracy Fund blog.
The Florida College System (FCS) is bringing civic engagement to over 850,000 students by partnering with TurboVote at 27 state and community colleges. This is the first system-wide project of the FCS Civic Literacy Initiative, and made possible by the Institute for Strategic Policy Solutions at St. Petersburg College.
It’s a big deal. FCS is how most Floridians access higher education—65 percent of the state’s high school graduates begin their postsecondary education at one of the system’s colleges.
And this is no summer fling. When TurboVote partners with a school, we provide them with their own custom website and work with administrators to institutionalize voter engagement into their student services for the long-term by integrating TurboVote with class registration, freshman orientation, and other school-wide student experiences.
As schools across Florida come together to bring TurboVote to their campuses, they’re not only introducing the next generation to our democracy, they’re also serving as a model for the rest of the country.
Yours,
Seth Flaxman of the TurboVote team