![]() ![]() In the long haul, we feel that the Schools and Community First initiative, which California voters will find on the 2020 statewide ballot, is our best bet to resolve the district’s ongoing structural deficit. It is our responsibility to step up and invest in a future, a city, and state that our kids deserve. The current budget constraints faced by LAUSD and large school districts throughout the state were created by a decades-long denial of our collective responsibility to pay for and invest in our children’s education. ![]() Students that decide not to attend school will have access to free tutoring, breakfast/lunch/snacks, and support for college and financial aid applications at both the headquarters of InnerCity Struggle as well as the Community Coalition.įinally, the Equity Alliance stands ready to work with all partners to identify new revenue streams to help resolve the district’s ongoing structural deficit. In the case of a strike, the Equity Alliance will offer direct support and services to impacted students and their families in some of the highest need neighborhoods in the district. The district and teachers’ union need to put our children first in all their negotiations.” We need the district to make up the lost time by providing our children in highest need schools with remediation and support interventions so they don’t suffer in their classes. Similarly, we hold both sides accountable for any negative impacts a potential strike could have on high-need students and demand follow up supports to make up for lost instructional time.Ĭommunity Coalition parent leader, Ana Carrion: “In the case of a strike, it will be important for us to monitor the impact of the loss of instruction time on our children. ![]() We urge both sides to stay in the room until a reasonable compromise is agreed upon and to avert a strike over the next few days. In the end, we see the responsibility for resolving this conflict falling equally on both sides of the negotiating table. We also see an opportunity to negotiate these demands to be implemented equitably with high and highest need students being first in line for the additional support. More specifically, the Equity Alliance, agrees with several of United Teachers Los Angeles’ (UTLA) demands including the need to significantly reduce class sizes, increase access to nurses/counselors/school psychologists, move toward a more comprehensive “Community Schools” model, and ensure that students of color are not criminalized through unwarranted searches and seizures on campuses. We support all demands that seek to improve public education for our highest need students and families and all efforts leading toward a more just and equitable school system. We value and respect our teachers, and we support their right to organize and collectively bargain. We cannot compromise on equity if we are serious about ending the cycle of poverty in our communities and putting more youth like me on the path to college.”Īt the same time, we recognize the essential role teachers have in ensuring that all students receive a quality education. InnerCity Struggle student leader, Kimberly Robles from Garfield High School: “It’s unacceptable that students like me are being overlooked and expected to learn without being given enough support. The Equity Alliance for LA’s Kids is committed to fighting against any effort that undermines the letter and spirit of that resolution which would once again defer and delay justice for our highest-need students. In 2019, we intend to keep our attention focused on the effective implementation of that ground-breaking resolution. We have been fighting the district’s status quo budgetary policies that often leave predominately low- income Black and Latino students to bear the brunt of historical disinvestments and short-sighted political in-fighting.ĭespite LAUSD’s very fractured and complicated terrain, we were hopeful when the Board of Education voted unanimously in favor of an April 2018 resolution to shift $263M per year towards the highest need schools in the district. The Equity Alliance for LA’s Kids led by the Community Coalition, InnerCity Struggle, and Advancement Project California, has been fighting for increased investments for the highest- need students and schools within the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). ![]()
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