A community-based organization frames its collaboration with multiple stakeholders around changing from a “culture of discipline” to a “culture of dignity” within the Los Angeles district. by Maisie Chin Voices in Urban Education Click link for full article http://vue.annenberginstitute.org/issues/42/are-we-ready-meetthemoment

Ever since the “Philamplify” debate on the pros and cons of school privatization, drawing on the review of the Walton Family Foundation issued by the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy, there has been a lot of controversy over where progressive philanthropy really stands on charter schools and school vouchers, two of the core tenets of Read more…

For years, the school-to-prison pipeline has afflicted communities of color in New York. From a young age, students begin to be treated like criminals within the confines of their own schools by Christine Rodriguez, Aug 17, 2015 Gotham Gazette http://gothamgazette.com/index.php/opinion/5852-a-step-toward-ending-the-school-to-prison-pipeline

Angry over a plan to close a small city high school, several dozen students said Thursday that they would fight to keep Kensington Urban Education Academy open. “As students, parents, and community members, we have been shut out of this process,” Essence Whiting, a Kensington Urban student and member of the student organizing group Youth Read more…

By Sarah Darville, Stephanie Snyder source: NY Chalkbeat Suspensions in city schools over the first seven months of the school year are down 10 percent compared to that period last year, officials said Tuesday. Over the first 110 days of school, 22,509 principal suspensions were handed down to city students, in addition to more than Read more…