15 Years: Lesson 1: School PB is an Onramp to Civic Education

Two side-by-side images show two different young people who are participants in a School PB process. An image on the bottom right shows young people drawing on a poster. A caption on the top right reads “School Participatory Budgeting.”

School Participatory Budgeting is an innovative and highly malleable civic learning process designed to build student agency, collaboration, and critical thinking skills while creating equitable opportunities for students to participate in authentic, impactful decision-making opportunities within their school communities and prepare for civic life.