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Carrie Chapman Catt Award, courtesy of Secretary of State s Office
(KWWL) Three eastern Iowa schools have qualified for the 2021 Carrie Chapman Catt Award, by registering over 90 percent of eligible students to vote.
The award is named for Iowa women s suffrage leader Carrie Champman Catt who was instrumental in securing passage of the 19th Amendment, which allowed women the right to vote.
The three schools qualified for the award are:
Lone Tree High School
Valley Lutheran School (Cedar Falls)
All three schools were among eighteen Iowa schools that qualified for the award last year. The three schools will hold trophy presentations at a later time. The deadline for schools to qualify for the award is April 16.