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2013 School Discipline Policy and School Climate Bill of Rights

The LAUSD Board Resolution That Ended Willful Defiance Suspensions and Established Students’ Right to Alternatives What This Policy Is and Why It Matters On May 14, 2013, the LAUSD Board of Education adopted one of the most significant school discipline…
Defending Dignity in School Discipline (2007)

How Parents and Youth Exposed Punitive School Cultures—and Demanded a Human Rights Response in South LA What This Report Is and Why It Matters Before the phrase school-to-prison pipeline entered the national conversation, Black and Brown students in South Los…
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…
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.…
More Education. Less Suspension. A Call to Action to Stop the Pushout Crisis in South Los Angeles

Parent-Led Human Rights Documentation That Exposed the Pushout Crisis Hidden Behind LAUSD’s Dropout Numbers What This Report Is and Why It Matters In June 2006, CADRE released More Education. Less Suspension. a parent-led human rights documentation report that changed the…