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(Philadelphia, PA) More than 950 high-school students from 22 high schools in Philadelphia and Montgomery County are participating in Committee of Seventy’s expanded Election Ambassador Corps trainings this spring. That’s more than a 50% increase from the number who participated last fall. The students prepared to serve as Election Ambassadors more than 1,000 polling places near their homes on Pennsylvania’s Primary Day, April 26.

City Council Committee on Law and Government

City Council Committee on Law and Government

To introduce the students to the idea and component steps of active listening and give them practice applying those skills.

With a plurality of voters — 20% — still undecided, the election’s results are far from predetermined.

C70 Chief Policy Officer Pat Christmas submits testimony on rules reform and fostering bipartisanship to the Speaker's Workgroup to Move Pennsylvania Forward.

Council considers additional disclosures for commercial landlords

Philadelphia Board of Ethics

Philadelphia took a significant step forward in the 2011 redistricting cycle when several of the most gerrymandered districts in the country were finally addressed. This was due, in no small part, to substantial advocacy both in the communities negatively affected and by champions within City Hall of a more fair map that strove for equitable representation.

Testimony on Citizen Participation in Congressional Redistricting in the Senate State Government Committee