Our society is designed to maintain racial and class-based inequity, and schools reflect and perpetuate this status quo. New systems, policies and pedagogy must actively undo this damage. The DSC started in 2006 when local grassroots and advocacy groups fighting… More
APPLY HERE Via our colleagues at the Funders Collaborative on Youth Organizing Dear Friends and Allies, We are living through a pivotal historical period full of exciting opportunities for social change as well as grave threats to democracy… More
Over the past year, members of Deep’s Action Research Team (ART), as well as young people from around the city, gathered to examine the world that they live in, and more importantly, the things they can do to transform it.… More
DSC-NY Director Kate McDonough and Educator Becca Polk reflect on the impact big data, algorithms and predictive analytics on our students and in our schools. These reflections come after participating the Twin Cities Innovation Alliance's workshop at the
In a special segment of "By Any Means Necessary" Eugene Puryear and Sean Blackmon are joined by DSC member Marika Pfefferkorn, Co-Founder Coalition to Stop the Cradle to Prison Algorithm (CPA Coalition) and Twin Cities Innovation Alliance (TCIA) Director… More
Lift Us Up, Don't Push Us Out! features voices from the frontlines of a new movement for educational justice that is growing across the United States. Organizers and Activists recount their journeys to movement building, lift up victories and… More
Black Lives Matter at School is excited to announce the release of their newly produced campaign video! This short primer for the movement gets its subtitle from the words of high school student Israel Presley who says, “All I ever… More
From AYA Educational Institute: Don't let others interpret or summarize MLK. Here are excerpts from his speeches that will strengthen our fighting spirit. MLK: "If you've not found something so dear to you that you're willing to die for… More
Black Organizing Project is reviving the spirit of Oakland’s Black community through relationship building, leadership development, political education and policy-change. @BlackOrganizingProject http://blackorganizingproject.org/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1wg-KlrMOs More
Parents say "NO!" to proposed Orleans Parish School Board Closures! November 16, 2018 - Last night was a GREAT turnout as parents, youth and community members packed the Orleans Parish School Board meeting More