Constitution Day

As a result of a new Federal Law, beginning this year all schools that receive any federal money (including grants) — from preschools through colleges — are required to commemorate Constitution Day in some way celebrating the day, September 17, 1887, that the Constitution was signed. If the day falls on a weekend, as it does this year, schools can celebrate the week before or after. In just four hand-written pages, the Constitution gives us no less than the owners’ manual to the greatest form of government the world has ever known.