Communities for Just Schools Fund (CJSF) is a national collaborative that links philanthropy with the power of grassroots organizing to transform schools. Join CJSF and our partners, Nollie Jenkins Family Center (NJFC) and the MS Coalition to End… More
Click here to explore the guide! It has always been true that student behavior is directly tied to whether their needs are being met, trauma they have experienced, and a range of other factors. We know that… More
Originally Published here Data Brief — Urban Youth Collaborative: Looking at five years of school policing data in New York City public schools, this data brief highlights the racial disparities that (particularly) Black and Latinx students face. Despite some… More
Willful Defiance tells the story of how Black and Brown parents and students organized to dismantle the school–to–prison pipeline in their local schools and built a movement that spread across the country. It examines organizing processes in Mississippi, Los Angeles and… More
In the midst of a historical presidential and vice- presidential election - Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities are still plagued with economic, education, housing, safety and health inequities fueled by systemic racism for communities of color, the pandemic has highlighted… More
Location Flexible About the People’s Think Tank The People’s Think Tank (PTT) is an intersectional movement space for re-imagining a radically democratic future, fiscally sponsored by the Schott Foundation for Public Education. Members of the PTT network include 40+ grassroots… More
The People’s Think Tank is pleased to release the video of the powerful panel discussion Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: Education Justice in the NOW! Watch and listen to educational justice organizers discuss the impact of COVID-19 and mass antiracist protests… More
Congrats to our colleague and comrade Mark Warren! Mark recently won a major award from the American Educational Research Association for his activist & collaborative scholarship on community/parent/youth organizing and educational & racial justice movements! Learn more about Mark's great… More
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
Black students in schools across our nation are the targets of surveillance, police violence, and abuse in perpetuity. Some of these assaults are made known to the public, while many go under the radar, further subjecting Black students to…
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