End the Tickets: Alternatives for Youth is a collection of reports and documents that reveal the problems of Los Angeles Municipal Code 45.04 and provide alternatives for youth that do not involve the use of tickets, police, probation or courts to address the root causes of LAUSD's 50% drop-out/push-out rate. This collection was presented to Los Angeles Unified School District at the October 20th, 2009 Board meeting as a platform to end the criminalization of truancy, tardiness and other disciplinary issues and as an alternative to the Verdugo Hills High model.

A document on a variety of examples of drop-out prevention and truancy reduction
programs that can serve as examples of alternatives to ticketing and
police/court involvement. 

School-wide Positive Behavior Support (SWPBS) is a research-based, school-wide systems approach to improve school climate and create safer and more effective schools.

A resolution passed by LAUSD Board members Ms. LaMotte, Ms. Garcia, and Ms. Flores-Aguilar that supports equal protection and
civil rights for all students in LAUSD.

Voices From the Students provides direct testimony from students who have receieved "truancy tickets." The testimonies document the consequences of these tickets and the experiences while receiving them from police officers.

The Strategy Center's Community Rights Campaign in collaboration with the Los Angeles Chapter of Dignity in Schools Campaign release the first of two policy papers, Police in LAUSD Schools: The Need for Accountability and Alternatives, to strengthen accountability and transparency in the Los Angeles School Police Department (LASPD) for Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) students and families.

Los Angeles Unified School District's School-Wide Positive Behavior Support policy establishes a framework that focuses on proactive strategies designed to prevent discipline problems.

Having fought for equal access to quality education for decades, Black, Latino, Asian and other people of color are now facing a whole new barrier. The mostly Black and Latino students of the LA Unified School District are being criminalized and ticketed for absences or lateness ("truancy"), contributing significantly to their 50% dropout/pushout rate.