Several youth groups in Merced County are preparing to embark on “life-changing” summer trips designed to build future leaders, according to program organizers.
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| Read more >Restorative justice is aimed at keeping kids in school instead of pushing them out and helps to give students tools to resolve problems. Students are taught to resolve their problems by engaging in conversations and understanding the harm they have caused another student or even their community.
| Read more >San Francisco’s Bayview district is best known for its gun violence, drugs, pollution and poverty, and not much else. But a community health clinic’s radical approach to healing children may change all that by turning the impoverished neighborhood into an epicenter for trauma-informed care.
| Read more >Professionals and advocates from varied fields including pediatrics, juvenile justice and public health, are hoping California lawmakers pass a resolution acknowledging the harmful effects that ongoing trauma has on a child’s developing brain and body.
| Read more >Our series “Life Cycles of Inequity” explores the ways in which inequity impacts the lives of black men. Each month, we focus on a life stage or event in which that impact has been shown to be particularly profound. Previously, we focused on implicit bias in the classroom.
| Read more >Three large school districts in California are rewriting the rules about how and when police should be involved on their campuses, complementing broader efforts to implement less punitive disciplinary practices.
| Read more >Three large school districts in California are rewriting the rules about how and when police should be involved on their campuses, complementing broader efforts to implement less punitive disciplinary practices.
| Read more >People from different communities, organizations, educators, and youth teams filled the Serna Center during the June 5th School Board meeting. The board members covered a variety of subjects , such as school disciplinary actions, funding of schools, and praise for the good work which residents...
| Read more >Schools in the Merced Union High School District, Merced County Office of Education and the Le Grand Union High School District are using a restorative justice model to reduce student discipline problems as well as the number of suspensions and expulsions.
| Read more >In response to a recent task force report to President Barack Obama on My Brother’s Keeper, an initiative that brings together private sector and philanthropic organizations to improve the lives and outcomes of boys and young men of color in the United States, seven university-based research...
| Read more >Two decades after California voters took a hard line on illegal immigration, affirmative action and bilingual education, an ascendant class of Latino lawmakers is seeking to rewrite the books and discard the polarizing laws.
| Read more >Two decades after California voters took a hard line on illegal immigration, affirmative action and bilingual education, an ascendant class of Latino lawmakers is seeking to rewrite the books and discard the polarizing laws.
| Read more >“As the first Filipino-American legislator in the history of our state, and the father of a Filipino-Puerto Rican-American son, I’m well aware of a lot of the disparate impacts facing our boys and men of color,” said Assemblymember Rob Bonta (D-Oakland).
| Read more >Students from Ramona Gardens on Wednesday night presented a year’s worth of in-depth research on major problems affecting their community.
| Read more >This week, The Long Beach Unified School District passed its Local Control Accountability Plan (LCAP), which explains how it will meet annual goals with specifics to Local Control Funding Formula, which allocates funds to students with the highest needs.
| Read more >In downtown Oakland, more than 400 activists, funders, nonprofit founders, academics and policy wonks from across the country gathered to put their heads together to share the struggles and success stories in the effort to shift the odds against boys and men of color.
| Read more >Long Beach students and teachers gathered at Reid High School Thursday to discuss the positive impacts of “restorative justice,” an alternative approach to resolving conflicts on school campuses.
| Read more >The Obama administration announced recommendations on Friday on how public and private entities can participate in a White House initiative meant to support minority men and boys, including a move to focus on summer jobs and recruit adults who can serve as mentors.
| Read more >As new data on California’s educational inequities mounts, a statewide multicultural coalition is forming to push for legislation that would address disparities in K-12 schools and the state’s universities.
| Read more >Our series “Life Cycles of Inequity” explores the ways in which inequity impacts the lives of black men. Each month, we focus on a life stage or event in which that impact has been shown to be particularly profound. This article is part of a package focused on implicit bias in schools.
| Read more >Who Will Be Able to Participate in My Brother’s Keeper? A letter sent to the Obama Administration expressed concerns that a new grant requirement in the My Brother’s Keeper initiative would effectively exclude almost all African American social, civic and mentoring organizations from participating.
| Read more >Gov. Jerry Brown's administration states that California has already met a court-ordered limit on the state prison population, but inmate lawyers argue that is because the state is counting a half-filled medical prison closed to new admissions.
| Read more >Today, Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the U.S. Justice Department would begin collecting data on how many times people are stopped, searched and arrested by police as a way of sussing out problematic stop-and-frisk and racial profiling practices.
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