Every year, the National Education Association chooses a week in mid-November for the entire nation to think about and rededicate itself to making our schools the best that they can be. This year, the theme of American Education Week is an extremely appropriate one for you to run your school-wide petition drive: “Great Public Schools: A Basic Right and Our Responsibility”!

So if you haven’t picked a week to run your petition drive yet, talk with your group members and your teacher-advisor NOW and get everyone committed to running the drive during the week of November 13 – 17! And if you are looking for an easy way to get your principal to approve your drive, telling him or her that you’d like to run your petition drive as a school project in support of “American Education Week” would be a great way to get it!