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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…
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…
CADRE Years in Review: 2010–2012
Twelve Years of Parent Power and the Movement Still Rising What This Report Is and Why It Matters CADRE’s Years in Review: 2010–2012 is the organization’s first bi-annual impact report, a milestone document that steps back from individual campaigns to…
Perfecting Our Union: Human Rights Success Stories from Across the United States
A National Spotlight on How South LA Parents Used Human Rights to Transform School Discipline What This Report Is and Why It Matters In 2010, the U.S. Human Rights Fund published Perfecting Our Union: Human Rights Success Stories from Across…
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.…
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…
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…