Mid-Atlantic State

Winter Congress Legislative Index

15 February 2012

Attending the 2012 Mid-Atlantic & Texas Winter Congress in Washington, DC on February 24th-26th? You can access the Legislative Index here: Legislative Index. Please refer to the committee listing, in order to see what committee you are in. You can also view all of the bills that your committee will be debating. Signing up to speak [...]

Mid-Atlantic Fall State 2011

03 January 2012

Over the weekend of December 3rd, nearly 600 JSA students from up and down the east coast met for the Mid-Atlantic State’s first state convention of the year, Fall State 2011. The convention, entitled The Power Paradigm: Our Role in a Changing World, students debated and discussed countless issues, ranging from foreign policy to domestic [...]

November Activism Initiative

13 November 2011

Letter writing has been a central tenant of political engagement and has helped uphold our experiment in democracy for the past 236 years.  From the earliest correspondences between patriots and their infant governments, to the thousands of pieces of mail received by Speaker Pelosi as the Democrats pushed through health care reform, letter writing has [...]

What Movie Do You Want to Watch at Fall State?

01 November 2011

Junior Statesman Foundation Board Chairman Urges Schools to Improve Civic Education

08 October 2011

The Junior Statesmen Foundation Board Chair Mike McCurry wrote an opinion piece for Politico (published on October 2nd).  In the article, he expresses concern over the lack of civic education taught in public schools. He argues that parents should encourage civic participation and that it should be incorporated into state testing to hold districts accountable [...]