Amount: $25,000 (3 YR) / Spring 2016
Doran Schrantz, Executive Director
Website: http://isaiahmn.org/
A three-year renewal grant will support this multi-racial, faith-based organizing group to build out its racial justice and education reform work to close the educational equity gap and to dismantle systems of mass incarceration and deportation in communities in black and brown communities. Next year, in addition to expanding the moratorium on suspensions to include higher grades and additional state districts, ISAIAH youth and parents organizers are seeking an investment of $100 million from the state for racial equity in education, which may be spent on support staff or other targeted programs that could support alternatives to suspension.