01 Jul What can you do now that you’ve listened to ‘The Sabotage of Black Education: The Fight Against Rahm Emanuel to Save Dyett High School’?
Consider a donation to the following organizations:
Journey for Justice Alliance Journey for Justice Alliance was launched in 2012, in response to the growing problem of school privatization (starving of neighborhood schools, school closings, charter and contract school expansion, turnarounds) impacting cities across the United States.
The Kenwood Oakland Community Organization through the sustained engagement of low-income and working families develops multi-generational leaders who impact decision-making process and public policies, improving the quality of life in local communities.
Alliance for Quality Education is a coalition mobilizing communities across the state to keep New York true to its promise of ensuring a high quality public education to all students regardless of zip code.
Rethinking Schools is the country’s leading grassroots magazine for social and racial justice in education.
Dignity In Schools challenges the systemic problem of pushout in our nation’s schools and works to dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline.
Zinn Education Project promotes and supports the teaching of people’s history in middle and high school classrooms across the country.
Teaching Tolerance provides free resources to educators—teachers, administrators, counselors and other practitioners—who work with children from kindergarten through high school. Educators use our materials to supplement the curriculum, to inform their practices, and to create civil and inclusive school communities where children are respected, valued and welcome participants.
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Teaching for Black Lives grows directly out of the movement for Black lives. The authors recognize that anti-Black racism constructs Black people, and Blackness generally, as not counting as human life. Throughout this book, the authors provide resources and demonstrate how teachers connect curriculum to young people’s lives and root their concerns and daily experiences in what is taught and how classrooms are set up. They also highlight the hope and beauty of student activism and collective action.
Check-out some additional resources:
Listen to “On The Ground” podcast hosted by Jitu Brown, National Director of the Journey for Justice Alliance. Jitu is dedicated to “spreading the gospel” of community organizing to the public.
The Schott Foundation for Public Education is dedicated to developing and strengthening a broad-based and representative movement to achieve fully-resourced, quality PreK-12 public education.
Explore the #LetsFundNYSchools Toolkit.
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