More than 150 Cleveland schools students vote for first time [Video]

CLEVELAND — Voting is known as a civic duty, but through their Steppin’ and Rollin’ to the Polls event, leaders in the Cleveland Metropolitan School District and Greater Cleveland Congregations added celebration to that duty for first-time voters Tuesday morning.

“What you see today is a culmination of youth telling us adults that this should be a joyful moment,” said Khalilah Worley-Billy, a senior organizer with GCC, an organization committed to building community power for change.

Throughout the event, which began at Trinity Cathedral Episcopal Church, more than 150 students within CMSD received a real-life lesson on political civic engagement.

“After so many years of watching, I finally get to vote,” said Taiveion Robinson, a student at the Cleveland School of the Arts.

Robinson is one of the newly eligible 18-year-old voters who …