Hazen Board Chair, Charles Fields joins Irvine with a career-long commitment to innovation and social change. He has more than a decade of leadership experience in the nonprofit and philanthropic sector (most recently at The California Endowment), funding and supporting social sector organizations so that they can achieve greater impact on issues, including criminal justice Read more…

“We’re witnessing the collapse of the neoliberal vision around privatizing these public commons,” says Rapheal Randall, executive director of Youth United for Change, a youth-centered organization that works to develop leadership among black and brown youth in working class communities in Philadelphia. Randall says that the model in Philadelphia has been to treat schools like Read more…

Ruth Jeannoel, lead organizer for the advocacy group Power U Center for Social Change. “The district still needs to find a way to shift the culture.” Just one suspension can start students on the school-to-prison pipeline, a term that advocates use to describe policies and practices that steer students away from classrooms and into jail Read more…

A vocal and sometimes disruptive group of mostly student activists declared victory this week over federal weaponry being used by LA Unified police. The group received letters of explanation and apologies from two board members and the school police chief. The Labor/Community Strategy Center’s Fight for the Soul of the Cities, a nonprofit civil rights Read more…

Last weekend hundreds of Little Rock denizens and public school proponents rallied at the Capitol to call for the state to renew Superintendent Baker Kurrus’s contract, place a moratorium on charter school expansion, and to return control to a locally elected school board. Bill Kopsky, with the Arkansas Public Policy Panel, helped organized that event. Read more…