{"id":785,"date":"2016-01-25T02:55:02","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T02:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cadre-la.org\/newhome\/?page_id=785"},"modified":"2020-02-13T21:22:32","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T21:22:32","slug":"our-story","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cadre-la.org\/newhome\/our-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1455512509278{background-color: #ffffff !important;}&#8221;][vc_column css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1455512538228{margin-top: 5px !important;margin-right: 5px !important;margin-bottom: 5px !important;margin-left: 5px !important;border-top-width: 5px !important;border-right-width: 5px !important;border-bottom-width: 5px !important;border-left-width: 5px !important;padding-top: 10px !important;padding-right: 10px !important;padding-bottom: 10px !important;padding-left: 10px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;border-left-color: #1e73be !important;border-right-color: #1e73be !important;border-top-color: #1e73be !important;border-bottom-color: #1e73be !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"color: #008080;\"><b>Who We Are<\/b><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Community Asset Development Re-defining Education (CADRE) is an independent, community-based, organizing and social justice-driven parent membership organization in South Los Angeles founded in 2001. CADRE is led by Black\/African American and Latino parents and caregivers whose children attend local schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). We build power to win systemic change \u2013 through new policies and challenging existing ones as part of a movement towards educational and racial justice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Our mission is to solidify and advance parent leadership to ensure that all children are rightfully educated regardless of where they live.\u00a0\u00a0CADRE challenges schools\u2019 beliefs and practices that criminalize children and parents and violate their human rights to a quality education, dignity, and participation in our current public education system.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">We reach for our mission through parent organizing.\u00a0\u00a0For CADRE, parent organizing includes:\u00a0\u00a0building a membership base and core leaders; leadership development and capacity building; political education; an on-going systemic change campaign based on parent monitoring and holding schools accountable for human and civil rights; participatory action research; individual advocacy; working in coalitions and building a movement; and last but not least, healing, transformation, and building collective solidarity among parents.\u00a0\u00a0All of this is done with the deep participation of our parent leaders through the centering of their lives as parents of color, raising families of color, in historically disenfranchised South LA.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">We have matured from our South LA living-room roots to become a trusted parent organization locally, statewide, and nationally.\u00a0\u00a0Through our Human Right to Education Campaign, CADRE has won policy changes in 2007, 2013, and 2014 that have led to historic reductions in suspensions in LAUSD and to new approaches to positive, restorative school discipline and climate.\u00a0\u00a0CADRE also co-founded the national Dignity in Schools Campaign, along with its Los Angeles and California-based chapters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Our vision is that schools will respect and cultivate the humanity, collective spirit and resilience of Black and Latino families, and contribute to a shared vision of South LA as a unified community that has power and self-determination.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">Link to <a href=\"http:\/\/cadre-la.org\/newhome\/?page_id=789\"><span class=\"s3\"><b><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Mission &amp; Vision<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">Link to <a href=\"http:\/\/cadre-la.org\/newhome\/?page_id=1603\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><span class=\"s3\"><b>Beliefs, Values, &amp; Principles<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1455512509278{background-color: #ffffff !important;}&#8221;][vc_column css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1455512538228{margin-top: 5px !important;margin-right: 5px !important;margin-bottom: 5px !important;margin-left: 5px !important;border-top-width: 5px !important;border-right-width: 5px !important;border-bottom-width: 5px !important;border-left-width: 5px !important;padding-top: 10px !important;padding-right: 10px !important;padding-bottom: 10px !important;padding-left: 10px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;border-left-color: #1e73be !important;border-right-color: #1e73be !important;border-top-color: #1e73be !important;border-bottom-color: #1e73be !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_text] Who We Are &nbsp; Community Asset Development Re-defining Education (CADRE) is an independent, community-based, organizing and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-785","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cadre-la.org\/newhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cadre-la.org\/newhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cadre-la.org\/newhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cadre-la.org\/newhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cadre-la.org\/newhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=785"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/cadre-la.org\/newhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2169,"href":"https:\/\/cadre-la.org\/newhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/785\/revisions\/2169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cadre-la.org\/newhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}