High school project idea · Law, Policy & Society
Move from complaining about a school problem to writing rules that could actually govern it.
Draft a clear, implementable policy around a defined school issue while balancing rights, safety, equity, workload, and enforcement.
Why this project matters
Draft a clear, implementable policy around a defined school issue while balancing rights, safety, equity, workload, and enforcement. This project feels different from a school assignment because the student serves students, staff, families, and administrators governed by the policy, creates something visible, tests it honestly, responds to feedback, and explains the decisions behind the final result.
What you will create
Use these deliverables as milestones for Write a Fairer School Policy. Adapt the details to your interests, available time, and real-world opportunities.
Research problem definition, current policy, legal constraints, stakeholder harms, definitions, procedures, enforcement, appeals, training, and evaluation. Document the needs, constraints, credible sources, and perspectives of students, staff, families, and administrators governed by the policy.
Turn the evidence into a focused plan for the model school policy and implementation package, including success criteria, ethical boundaries, scope, and a realistic path to completion.
Create the first complete version of the model school policy and implementation package. Include a problem and authority brief, stakeholder findings, policy principles, full policy text, implementation guide, communication plan, and evaluation measures.
run a tabletop test using realistic edge cases with students and adults, then revise ambiguity, burden, and unintended outcomes Record what happened, what failed, what users or reviewers said, and which changes you made.
Publish the final model school policy and implementation package with a portfolio-ready case study showing the challenge, evidence, process, revisions, results, limits, and next version.
Make the work stronger
For Write a Fairer School Policy, use these checkpoints to protect the quality of the work without turning the project into a performance for admissions.
Skills you can build
College application value
Can demonstrate initiative, curiosity, reflection, and growth through the student’s choices, response to setbacks, work with students, staff, families, and administrators governed by the policy, and development of Policy Drafting, Stakeholder Research, and Implementation Planning.
The goal of Write a Fairer School Policy is not to manufacture an impressive activity. Do real work, keep evidence of the process, and reflect honestly on what changed.
Related college majors
Use Write a Fairer School Policy as a clue, then open a related major guide to compare coursework, career directions, reality checks, and other ways to test the field.
Write a Fairer School Policy is an original Compass educational starting point designed around real work, visible evidence, feedback, and reflection. It is not an admissions guarantee.