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. It is also an alternative to the Verdugo Hills High model presented at the Board as well. Their approach imposes symbolic tickets and then real citations after the fourth tardy (given on campus, which has been found to be illegal by the courts), rather than focusing on support services and adhering to the district's Positive Behavior Support policy.

End the Tickets: Alternatives for Youth is split into seven sections.

1. Problems of Los Angeles Daytime Curfew Law: Why LAUSD Must Decriminalize Truancy and Tardiness
2. Creating Alternatives to Daytime Curfew "Truancy" Tickets
3. Sample Drop-out/Push-out Prevention and Truancy Reduction Programs
4. Voices From the Students: Testimonies from Students Receiving Daytime Curfew "Truancy Tickets"
5. Truancy Ticketing as Exclusionary Discipline
6. Equal Protection Resolution

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