The Scholastic News Kids Press Corps is a group of about 80 kids aged 9–14, who report on current events, breaking news, entertainment, and sports events from across the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 for Scholastic News Classroom Magazine and Scholastic's website.

Overview

The program is open to all students who read Scholastic News, Junior Scholastic, and other Scholastic classroom magazines. Most Kid Reporters apply and some are recruited by teachers who use Scholastic magazines. The program started during the 2000 Presidential Election

United States presidential election, 2000

The United States presidential election of 2000 was a contest between Republican candidate George W. Bush, then-governor of Texas and son of former president George H. W. Bush , and Democratic candidate Al Gore, then-Vice President....

, when Scholastic Kid Reporters covered the election, interviewing candidates and reporting from the campaign trail. It is headed by Suzanne Freeman.

Highlights

The Scholastic Kids Press Corps is a diverse team of about 80 hardworking, articulate kids ages 9–14, who report on current events, breaking news, entertainment, and sports events from their hometowns across the country.
Scholastic’s award-winning editors teach the Kid Reporters how to research information, conduct interviews and write articles.
Kid Reporters’ articles are published at Scholastic News Online and in Scholastic News (classroom magazines for students in grades 1–6) and Junior Scholastic (grades 6-8), and are read by millions of children in all 50 states.
The Kids Press Corps program started in 2000, when student reporters conducted extensive coverage of the Presidential Election, interviewing the candidates and reporting on key campaign events, the caucuses and primaries, debates, Democratic and Republican Conventions, Election Day, and the inauguration of President Bush.
In the past 15 months, Scholastic Kid Reporters have interviewed and written stories about John McCain, Barack Obama, Joseph Biden, Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton, Mitt Romney, Bob Barr, John Edwards, Mike Huckabee, Bill Richardson, Rudy Giuliani, Fred Thompson, Dennis Kucinich, Ralph Nader, Bill Clinton, Bridget McCain, Meghan McCain, Elizabeth Edwards, Cate Edwards, and Jason Rae the country’s youngest superdelegate, just to name a few!
You can read their election stories at Scholastic’s Election 2008 page. The election site gives kids, parents and teachers a chance to explore the electoral process in a fun way. Through interactive games, students can campaign for the nation’s highest office, balance the budget, design their own election posters, and decide how they would run the country if they were President!

-From Scholastic News