High School Civic Engagement Internship

Since 1985, Texas law has required all high schools in the state, public and private, to offer voter registration applications to eligible students two times during the academic year. Despite the clear obligations under the law, reports by the Texas Civil Rights Project and others find that the law is not sufficiently implemented across Texas, and that high schools continue to struggle with providing voter registration to eligible students. The High School Civic Engagement Internship Program, a collaboration between Rice University and the League of Women Voters of Houston (LWVH), seeks to expand prior efforts and initiatives by working with directly with high school students.