RESOURCES
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See Advocacy in Action!
Watch principals, parents and students telling their personal stories of how early voting has impacted them as they speak at the January 2024 Citywide Council on High Schools meeting to support a resolution to eliminate early voting from NYC public schools.
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Early Voting Map
View a map of the schools designated as early voting sites, with details of each school’s facility used and student population. Over 25,000 students are impacted across 33 schools in Brooklyn, the Bronx, Manhattan and Staten Island. Queens has no NYC public schools used as early voting sites.
CCHS Resolution
Resolution No. 2023-2024-05: Protecting Our Students – Resolution to Eliminate the Use of Public Schools as Early Voting Sites on School Days.
Read the CCHS resolution
UFT Resolution
The UFT reaffirms the importance of early voting for all residents of New York City and calls on the city Board of Elections not to use schools and instead identify alternative public spaces for early voting. Read the UFT resolution
READ THE COVERAGE
‘Find other viable sites’: Parents, schools, union call to end early voting in NYC public schools (Staten Island Advance, 3/21/24)
Early voting risks student safety (New York Daily News, 2/2/24)
Early voters wandering around schools just isn’t safe (opinion) (Staten Island Advance, 2/22/24)
NYC parents push back against using public schools for early voting (New York Daily News, 1/15/24)
Parents rip into Eric Adams after mayor says they might have to volunteer to protect NYC schools after new safety agents cut: ‘Not my job!’ (NY Post, 11/14/23)
No one cares: Abysmal early voting turnout of 2% for NYC general election this year (AMNY, 11/6/23)
‘The State Kind of Dumped This On Us:’ Early Voting Stirs Anxiety in N.Y. (NY Times, 10/24/19)
Parents slam early-vote invasion at NYC schools (NY Post, 10/31/19)
An Early Voting Headache: Parents, Administrators Cite Safety and Disruption Concerns for 33 NYC Schools (NY1, 10/26/19)