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by Dan Blackburn
Wiseburn Unified, which straddles El Segundo and Hawthorne, has the highest percentage of high school students registered to vote, among 53 Los Angeles County school districts, according to a poll released Monday by the Civics Center Foundation.
The Civics Center found that 90 percent of Wiseburn students who are eligible to vote are registered. The district is tied for first in the county rankings with Walnut Valley Unified.
Redondo Beach was ranked fifth, with 60 percent of its eligible high school students registered to vote.
El Segundo was ranked 18th (45%); Torrance was ranked 24th (42%) and Manhattan Beach was ranked 36th (37)%.
Palos Verdes Unified was the lowest ranked school district in South Bay. It ranked 48th out of 53 school districts in Los Angeles County, with 32% of its eligible students registered to vote.
The publication of the survey coincided with the launch on Monday of the Civic Center’s “National High School Enrollment Week”, which aims to boost student votes.
The Los Angeles-based Civics Center was founded by Laura K. Brill, a lawyer who worked for the late United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The organization is “dedicated to laying the groundwork for youth civic participation in high schools,” according to its website.
In a statement released this week, Brill said she believed the low turnout among young people was “driven not by a lack of interest, but by barriers to voter registration.”
Less than half of young Californians who turned 18 within six months of the November 2020 election are now registered to vote, she said.
For more information, Brill can be contacted at [email protected], or (310) 556-2700. or visit www.TheCivicsCenter.org. IS
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