High School Organizing
Policing the Schools of LAUSD
Truancy is a major issue for the Los Angeles Unified School District. On Feb. 18, the District held its second "Student Recovery Day."
Advancement Project Releases New Report: Test, Punish, & Push Out
The report looks at how punitive discipline and testing policies and practices have combined to turn many schools into hostile and alienating environments that drive youth out of school and toward the juvenile and criminal justice systems.
We highly encourage our members and supporters to read this important
document.
Activists call for reform of LA School Police Department
Article linked from 89.3 KPCC Southern California Public Radio 01/28/2010:
A Day of Action at Cleveland High School
By Diana Martinez, Editor
Article linked from the San Fernando Valley Sun 01/28/2010
Police in LAUSD Schools: The Need for Accountability and Alternatives
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.
Ruth Cusick & Michael Murray: Creating Dignity in Schools
An attorney and youth organizer from the Dignity in Schools Coalition discusses the National Resolution to End School Pushout being launched this week, and the discipline policies and class conditions that creating crisis of drop out/pushout for low income students of color in urban high schools.
California's future of education cuts & expanding prisons | Pre-Prison Diaries: November 11, 2009
"Pre-Prison Diaries" is a series from the Community Rights Campaign in which organizers, students and parents share stories and observations about truancy tickets, police in schools, zero tolerance, and other "pre-prison" conditions and experiences. Jackie Hill, current freshmen at Dominguez Hills, shares how the recent budget crisis and the increased spending on prisons in the last 25 years have impacted her life as a young Black woman.
Truancy Tickets as Exclusionary Discipline
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.
Sample Drop-out/Push-out Prevention and Truancy Reduction Programs
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.
