Youth
Without Public Notice, Input or Vote LAUSD Launches Truancy Detention Centers
From our view point, the AIC will serve as "truancy detention" centers rather than a space that has the actual resources and services to implement successful forms of prevention and intervention to address the underlying reasons for the student's tardiness/truancy. Thus, the Community Rights Campaign is urging the LAUSD Board to rollback and re-conceptualize the Attendance Improvement Centers.
Taking it Up a Notch: CR's Maze & Resistance Art Exhibit
On October 2nd 2010 the Labor Community Strategy's Center's Community Rights Campaign erected a "School to Prison" pipeline Walking Maze & Resistance Art Exhibit. This innovative art piece displayed a day in the life of a high school student at a LAUSD school. The exhibit was not only a viewing of art, but also a theater piece that encapsulated the experiences that a student faces when attempting to get to school on a poor y run and expensive bus system and the police harassment they encounter when they finally arrive to campus.
Caps & Gowns NOT Jail Cell Bound: Walking Maze & Resistance Art Exhibit
The Community Rights Campaign, based in Los Angeles, is fighting the school to prison pipeline. In October 2010, members created a "School-to-Prison" Pipeline Walking Maze & Resistance Art Exhibit to give participants a first hand experience of how inner city public high schools are increasingly hostile sites where student behavior is frequently criminalized.
Roosevelt High School Rally: We Want Caps and Gowns, Not Citations and Handcuffs!
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Oct 21 2010On Wednesday October 20th, at 7am, outside of Roosevelt High School we held a rally, despite the rain and cold weather, with over 50 students and teachers to mark the frustration we felt at the lack o
Chanel 34 News Coverage: Community Rights School-to-Prison Pipeline Maze & Resistance Art Exhibition
On October 2nd, the Community Rights Campaign hosted their "School-to-Prison Pipeline & Resistance Art Exhibition" with over 200 attendees!
Real LASPD reform is now on the table
For the past two months, the proposals in our Solutions for Los Angeles Schools Police Department document have been part of a successful organizing and advocacy effort. We are now in a strong enough position to move them into actual policy changes. Please continue reading to get the details around our School Police reform platform to reverse the impacts of the school-to-prison pipeline!
