What is the First Amendment Schools Grant Award Program?
The First Amendment Schools project awarded grants to 11 schools–public and private; elementary, middle, and high; from communities across the country–who are participating in a multiyear collaboration. Project schools are working to teach and model more completely the democratic principles of the First Amendment. The grant awards are designed to support these efforts and to promote the knowledge, skills, and virtues required for thoughtful and effective participation in civic life. The first network of First Amendment Schools is working to generate models of educating for democratic citizenship that other schools can adapt to their own communities. Program evaluation will aid future decisions about how school communities can best model and apply the democratic first principles they are charged with teaching.
