LAUSD

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.

Community Rights Launches No to Pre-Prisons Platform as the Start of the School Year Approaches

With the new school year approaching, the Community Rights Campaign unviels its "No to Pre-Prison" Human and Civil Rights Platform to demand the end to LAMC 45.04 and Truancy Tickets.

Stop the Pre-Prison Tracking of Black and Latino Students

We oppose LA's public schools as “pre-prisons” and are organizing at five inner city LAUSD high schools to build a student resistance to the mass incarceration of Black and Brown people.

A Day In The Life of an LAUSD Student

Flyer: My school to me just seems to be growing more and more like a prison. There’s a lot more security this year, which scares me because things were bad enough with one police officer last year.