Avoid this
- Starting the campaign promise feasibility report before understanding voters and students evaluating public claims
- Treating assumptions or internet opinions as real evidence
- Choosing a scope too large to test and finish with care
High school project idea · Law, Policy & Society
Fact-Check a Campaign Promise
Take one political promise apart before deciding whether it is bold, vague, possible, or misleading.
Investigate a specific campaign claim using primary sources, jurisdiction, cost, implementation authority, precedent, and evidence.
Original Compass project by Davisville LabsReviewed August 2026Goal real work, evidence, and reflectionEditorial standards →
Why this project matters
Learn by doing something real.
Investigate a specific campaign claim using primary sources, jurisdiction, cost, implementation authority, precedent, and evidence. This project feels different from a school assignment because the student serves voters and students evaluating public claims, creates something visible, tests it honestly, responds to feedback, and explains the decisions behind the final result.
What you will create
Your project plan
Use these deliverables as milestones for Fact-Check a Campaign Promise. Adapt the details to your interests, available time, and real-world opportunities.
- 01
Case record and stakeholder evidence
Research exact wording, office powers, legal authority, budget, timeline, affected groups, comparable policies, evidence, and missing details. Document the needs, constraints, credible sources, and perspectives of voters and students evaluating public claims.
- 02
Legal or policy analysis framework
Turn the evidence into a focused plan for the campaign promise feasibility report, including success criteria, ethical boundaries, scope, and a realistic path to completion.
- 03
Draft hearing, guide, or proposal
Create the first complete version of the campaign promise feasibility report. Include a claim transcript, source hierarchy, authority map, cost and timeline analysis, precedent comparison, expert views, rating framework, and verdict.
- 04
Deliberation and revision record
submit the analysis to reviewers with different political perspectives and revise any language that outruns the evidence Record what happened, what failed, what users or reviewers said, and which changes you made.
- 05
Final civic case study
Publish the final campaign promise feasibility report with a portfolio-ready case study showing the challenge, evidence, process, revisions, results, limits, and next version.
Make the work stronger
What separates a finished project from a meaningful one?
For Fact-Check a Campaign Promise, use these checkpoints to protect the quality of the work without turning the project into a performance for admissions.
Evidence that it is working
- The audience and real problem are clearly defined
- Research and evidence are documented
- A working campaign promise feasibility report was created
If you want to go further
- Test the work with at least five additional people from voters and students evaluating public claims
- Interview a professional connected to Political Journalism and compare their advice with your approach
Skills you can build
Capabilities that travel beyond this project.
Fact-CheckingPolicy FeasibilitySource VerificationPolicy AnalysisCivic Communication
College application value
Use the project as evidence, not decoration.
Can demonstrate initiative, curiosity, reflection, and growth through the student’s choices, response to setbacks, work with voters and students evaluating public claims, and development of Fact-Checking, Policy Feasibility, and Source Verification.
Civic EngagementCritical ThinkingCommunicationLeadershipResearch
The goal of Fact-Check a Campaign Promise is not to manufacture an impressive activity. Do real work, keep evidence of the process, and reflect honestly on what changed.
Related college majors
Which fields connect to this work?
Use Fact-Check a Campaign Promise as a clue, then open a related major guide to compare coursework, career directions, reality checks, and other ways to test the field.
How this guide was made
Read editorial standards →Fact-Check a Campaign Promise is an original Compass educational starting point designed around real work, visible evidence, feedback, and reflection. It is not an admissions guarantee.
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