SchoolHouse: Equity in Education

Mississippi organizers and education justice advocates reflect on the long struggle to end Mississippi’s school-to-prison pipeline and discuss police-free schools, abolition, and the radical imagination necessary to win education justice in Mississippi.

Mississippi organizers and education justice advocates reflect on the long struggle to end Mississippi’s school-to-prison pipeline and discuss police-free schools, abolition, and the radical imagination necessary to win education justice in Mississippi.

(CJSF) hosts a town-hall style discussion of the global movement for education justice in this coronavirus moment. Organizers from South Africa, Puerto Rico, Toronto, and Honduras share their perspectives about the education justice movement.

During a visit to Kimball Elementary School in Washington, DC, CJSF’s Allison R. Brown talks with principal Johann Lee and local Education Council Chair Eboni-Rose Thompson about how educators must lead with love in support of students and their families.

CJSF's Allison R. Brown talks to the President and CEO of the National Women's Law Center, Fatima Goss Graves, about the Center's report on school dress codes in Washington, DC, and the ways dress codes are used to stifle expression and control children.

Social justice teachers Cierra Kaler Jones and Rosalie Reyes join CJSF's Allison R. Brown in conversation about how to nurture and embrace all students, all of the people who walk into the classroom with their children, and all of those who walked before.

CJSF’s Allison R. Brown goes to school with professor Dr. Noliwe Rooks, author of Cutting School: Privatization, Segregation, and the End of Public Education. They discuss how capitalism requires and perpetuates racial and socioeconomic segregation.

CJSF’s Jaime Koppel and Thena Robinson Mock welcome CJSF partners and Andrus Family Fund to recap EASJ2018 in San Juan, Puerto Rico and explore together why global solidarity is necessary for justice in Puerto Rico and justice everywhere.

Mercedes Martínez, President of the Federación de Maestros de Puerto Rico

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Andrea Colon, Community Engagement Organizer, Rockaway Youth Task Force

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Karen "kg" Marshall, Executive Director, Rethink

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Leticia Peguero, Executive Director, Andrus Family Fund

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The School to Prison/School to Deportation Pipelines are ugly. CJSF’s Jaime Koppel speaks with Ricardo Martinez from Padres Y Jovenes Unidos and Erika Almiron from Vamos Juntos about shifting our nation’s priorities.

The School to Prison/School to Deportation Pipelines are ugly. CJSF’s Jaime Koppel speaks with Ricardo Martinez from Padres Y Jovenes Unidos and Erika Almiron from Vamos Juntos about shifting our nation’s priorities.