Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025, will be the seventh annual Student Press Freedom Day! Student journalists and their supporters across the United States will spend the day — and all month long — raising awareness of the challenges they face, celebrating their contributions to their schools and communities, and taking actions to protect and restore their First Amendment freedoms.
Check back here for more details as we get closer to February.
You can take action now for student press freedom! Check out these 50 ways, big and small, you can celebrate all year long:
The theme for Student Press Freedom Day 2024 was “Powerfully Persistent.”
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