• Must be a current New York City Public Schools (NYCPS) high school student; and

• Contest submissions will be accepted from individual NYC public high school students, or

• Collaborative teams of current NYC public high school students with all team members from the same high school; and

• High schools are permitted multiple individual and team entries; and

• Teams CAN NOT exceed three high school students per team; and

• Individual students and teams and any combination of such may not submit more than one resolution per contest.

• Previously awarded finalists are not eligible for participation, while previously awarded semi-finalists and previous entrants remain eligible to submit resolutions while enrolled in an NYCPS high school.

• A submitted resolution shall define a problem of concern to students, or to a school community, or to an education district, or to a borough, or to the entire citywide school population; and

• The submitted resolution shall propose a policy solution to the outlined problem or mitigating steps to reduce some of the listed concerns; and

• Resolutions supported by research shall reference evidence, and all quotations must include citations and footnotes; and

• Each submission must be written in a formal resolution format. For helpful guidance please see the following presentation, Resolution Development 101, produced in conjunction with NYCPS/DOE’s divisions of FACE and Parent University at https://youtu.be/tjlh0zCShF8 with accompanying slideshow and resolution templates at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_3EiRX1Fe5Ui4ga63VuZnDgKwM6YULM5/view. For additional examples, please see recent CCHS passed and adopted resolutions at https://www.cchsnyc.org/resolutions for reference; and

• Each resolution submission must be original written work whether they are submitted by individual high school students or by collaborative teams of up to three high school students per team; and

• The length of each resolution should be a minimum of two (2) pages and a maximum of six (6) pages. Any supportive charts, tables, or other source material may be provided as additional exhibit pages with a maximum of four (4) exhibit pages. Submitted resolutions shall not exceed ten (10) pages; and 

• Resolution entries shall be submitted as PDF attachments using a provided form on https://www.cchsnyc.org from Thursday, September 4, 2025, but no later than 11:59 PM on Monday, November 24, 2025; and

• Submitted emails shall specifically include in the subject the following title, "CCHS Resolution Writing Contest."

• Please see our recent CCHS Student Contest Finalist and Semifinalist winning resolutions: HERE.

• Submitted PDF resolutions must NOT 

  • Include any personal identifying information; and 

  • Include any school identifying information. 

• Submitted resolutions SHALL 

  • Contain a unique resolution title; and

  • Have the body of the email resolution submission replicate the exact title of the resolution as included in the attached resolution PDF; and

  • Have the email body also contain the full names and grade years of each of the high school student resolution author[s] with their respective NYCPS email address[es]; and

  • The full name of the representing high school; and

  • The name of the borough that the high school is located in; and

  • The name and email address of the designated high school contest school advisor (ie teacher, administrator, guidance counselor, or parent coordinator).

• All contest finalists and semi-finalists shall be recognized during the annual CCHS Legislative Breakfast and announced to community parent leaders, education advocates, elected officials, and NYCPS leadership; and

• Select finalists may be asked to present in-person their resolutions at the Legislative Breakfast; and

• All finalists’ resolutions may be considered for adoption by CCHS.

Submitted resolutions immediately become the property of the Citywide Council on High Schools. Fully authorized consent is given by any and all student authors to CCHS to reproduce resolutions at any time, in any partial portions or in their entirety of the submitted student resolutions, for use as a resolution draft for the purpose of deliberations, vote consideration, possible passage, and possible CCHS resolution adoption. 

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