Our project
During one week in March 2005, C-SPAN is teaming with Time Warner Cable, its Los Angeles affiliate, to create a unique educational experience for students at five local high schools. C-SPAN will be inviting leaders from a variety of fields which may include: members of the entertainment industry, elected or appointed officials, and national business leaders to “return to the classroom” at schools in Time Warner Cable’s service area to discuss leadership and their commitment to public service. C-SPAN cameras will record the events so these lessons in leadership can be shared with students across the country and with C-SPAN’s national viewing audience.

Press Release
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Highlights
·  5 days, 5 schools, 10 leaders… and hundreds of Los Angeles school students.
· The C-SPAN School Bus will be available at most events for production and student tours and teacher training.
· Invited leaders include members of the entertainment industry, national media, elected or appointed officials, and national business leaders.
· Events will take place in a small venue within the school, and consist of a question and answer session between students and the leader. Invited speakers are asked to discuss why they do what they do; in other words, to talk about their career path, decisions they made along the way, advice they would offer to young people today.
·  C-SPAN cameras will cover all events.  Each event will air on the C-SPAN2 and will be archived at C-SPAN.org.
· Use this Students & Leaders site to navigate lesson plans, archived video, and more information for the current and past projects.

Students & Leaders Los Angeles area participating schools:
High Tech High, Lake Balboa 
San Fernando High School, San Fernando 
Cleveland High School, Reseda 
Marina High School, Huntington Beach 
Garden Grove High School, Garden Grove 

Past Students & Leaders projects:
Washington DC, 2003   
New York City, 2004