By David Brighouse RAHWAY, NJ — On Tuesday, May 16, representatives of the League of Women Voters (LVW) of Plainfield visited Rahway High School (RHS) to speak with students about voting, elections, and the exercising of one's citizenship rights. The visit was...

8th grade Civics classes learn how to use a voting machine! Stay tuned to find out who is the favorite baseball team-Yankees, Mets, or Phillies! Original post here.

By Jennifer Popper PLAINFIELD, NJ — Students 17-years-old and up at Plainfield High School were given a crash course on how to maneuver through the process to cast their vote in this year's primary and general elections. The two-part event taught those eligible to...

A voter simulation event By Plainfield Public Schools, League of Women Voters of Plainfield PLAINFIELD, NJ —On March 21-22, the Plainfield Public School District will host a voting event to teach students everything they need to know about voting, from registration to...

Dr. Patricia Supplee and her assistant Robin Blair visited Mr. David Wronko’s Asbury Park social studies class to have the students participate in the voting rights timeline of history. The timeline showed voting rights from the colonial period to the American...

We're so proud of the Plainfield High School students who created and gave two community presentations using our Fighting for the Vote: Timeline of Suffrage and the Student Advocate Toolkit. One presentation occurred right before the deadline for registering to vote,...

By TAPinto Plainfield Staff PLAINFIELD, NJ – The 2021 midterm elections are fast approaching, and a group of Plainfield High School students want to motivate voters to exercise their right to vote. The students have been discussing the power of the vote in their...

"I do love a locker room. It smells like potential." — Coach Ted Lasso (the beloved protagonist of Apple TV's latest breakout hit) Ted Lasso's rapid ascent and positive infusion into our cultural zeitgeist solidified something I already knew: That coaches are an often...

By David Wronko, history teacher at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School (formerly Asbury Park Middle School). This past year I had the opportunity to work with Patricia L. Supplee and the League of Women Voters to bring interactive lessons to my remote classes....

At a time when the status of civic education in America is being seriously questioned, Middletown High School South (NJ) students and their teachers worked in concert with the League of Women Voters (LWV) to present the history of enfranchisement in the United States...