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Demanding Parent Love and Accountability in Our Schools (2017)
How South LA Parents Exposed the Unfinished Work of Discipline Reform—and Reclaimed Their Place as Equal Partners What This Report Is and Why It Matters “How can you love the kids, but hate the parents?” That question—posed by South Los…
Are We Ready to #MeetTheMoment? (2015)
Why Policy Wins Aren’t Enough—and What It Takes to Build a Culture of Dignity in South LA Schools What This Report Is and Why It Matters A student can be removed from school without ever being “suspended.” A parent can…
Centering Human Rights Through Parent Power: A Training Manual for Organizers (2007)
How South LA Parents Claimed Education as a Human Right—and Built the Skills to Demand Accountability What This Report Is and Why It Matters Before policy wins. Before board votes. Before headlines about discipline reform. There was parent education. Centering…
Reclaiming Dignity in LAUSD School Discipline: School-Wide Positive Behavior Support (2007)
How a Promising Policy Aimed to Transform School Discipline—and Why Accountability Still Matters What This Report Is and Why It Matters In 2007, the Los Angeles Unified District (LAUSD) adopted a sweeping Discipline Foundation Policy centered on School-Wide Positive Behavior…
A Parent-Led Victory in the Fight to End Pushout in Los Angeles Schools
How South LA Parents Organized Their Way to a Landmark LAUSD Policy Victory What This Report Is and Why It Matters In 2007, something extraordinary happened in the second largest school district in the United States: South LA parents won.…
LAUSD Discipline Foundation Policy Attachments: School-Wide Positive Behavior Support
The Practical Tools That Were Supposed to Turn a Historic Policy Into Practice and Why Parent Accountability Still Matters What This Resource Is and Why It Matters When LAUSD adopted its Discipline Foundation Policy in February 2007, the policy itself…
We Interrupt This Crisis—with Our Side of the Story: Relationships Between South Los Angeles Parents and Schools (2004)
When South LA Parents Told Their Story to the Schools That Weren’t Listening What This Report Is and Why It Matters In October 2004, CADRE and the Justice Matters Institute (JMI) published We Interrupt This Crisis with Our Side of…