Charter School Charter (for an Our Ed Club)
Thanks to our friend Robert Logan, a sophomore at Lusher Charter School in New Orleans, who is working with his friends to start up an Our Education club in his school. He drafted this charter for his club (get it? Charter? Like Charter School? haha? No? Not funny because it's not even a pun, it's just the same word used twice with the same meaning? Fine. It's Friday, I'm out of good material) and emailed it to me agreeing to us share it with all you out there who are interested in learning what it might be like to start up your own Our Education club as well!
Bear in mind, you don't have to start up an Our Education club to run a petition drive in your school at all -- you can work with an existing group or a supportive teacher instead. But we have a whole curriculum created for how you might engage your peers in a club, in addition to the petition drive and bracelet fundraiser. So check out this charter and contact us if you'd like to explore starting up your very own club!
Lusher Charter High School
Fall 2006
Our Education Club
Article I. Mission
The Our Education Club shall work to inform the student body of Lusher Middle School and Lusher High School about their rights as students and members of our society through informative campaigns. It shall also encourage as many students as possible to sign “Our Education’s Petition for an American Right to High Quality Education,” a petition being organized by the non-profit student organization, Our Education.
Article II. Overview
Section 1. The Our Education Club shall meet once every other week for sixty minutes to plan for and organize a week in which all eligible students in Lusher Middle School and Lusher High School will sign the petition mentioned earlier.
Section 2. The Our Education Club shall organize a week for students to sign the petition every year until the petition has achieved its goal with regards to the number of students signing it.
Section 3. The Our Education Club shall work with other clubs and student organizations, as well as Our Education in order to accomplish its mission.
Article III. Duration
The Our Education Club shall remain fully functional past the set week for the petition to be signed and may conduct other activities from time to time in order to increase student awareness and participation in as well as ownership of their education.
Article IV. Organizational Independence
The Our Education Club shall be free to organize itself further as it wishes within reasonable limits