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Do the Rights Thing

These Boston students are at the forefront of a movement to give students more voice. So help them speak up!

It’s time for something a little different, reader: a happy good news story! I’m shouting out to my fave Boston student activists, who are doing some of the best work in the country around student rights and voice. And best of all, this story comes with an action component—a *do now,* you might say. 

Here’s the deal
Youth on Board, which oversees a citywide body of elected student leaders from high schools across Boston, is up for a big cash money award from the Nellie Mae foundation. How much of a big cash money award? $100K, which would help this largely volunteer-run operation take its campaign to put students at the center of the conversation about schools to not just the next level, but the next three levels. I’m going to pause here so that you can cast your vote for Youth on Board. Wait. You’re still not done. Quick—go to your email and click on the confirmation link. Wait for it. Wait for it. There. You’ve just done the rights thing! Now alert your family, friends and colleagues and ask them to do the same thing.

Why I am such a huge fan of these students
It isn’t often that I suspend my steady volley of snark-filled diatribes against [insert current target here] in order to sing the praises of someone or a great many someones I admire. Which tells you that these Boston student activists must be pretty great. This summer they rolled out the first student rights app in the country, so that Do the Rights Thing | EduShyster: