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Parents Push for Student Safety

A parent-led grassroots organization in Georgia chips away at punitive school discipline policies and works to remove police from their schools.

Topic

Rights & Activism

September 23, 2021

Another Challenging Back-to-School Season

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LFJ sends encouragement and support to parents and caregivers as we enter another school year with COVID-19.

Topic

Rights & Activism

September 9, 2021

What Critical Race Theory Is and What it Means for Teachers

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Education law and policy expert Bob Kim answers some key questions for educators about these so-called “anti-critical race theory” laws and what’s really going on.

August 23, 2021

Partnering With Families to Support Black Girls

Young African-American girl writing in a notebook.

Educators can take specific actions to make schools more supportive spaces for Black girls, whose trauma is often overlooked.

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Race & Ethnicity Gender & Sexual Identity

August 5, 2021

Pay BIPOC Educators for Their DEI Labor

A group of educators speaking to each other.

Volunteer-based DEI teams often recreate the inequities they are designed to address. Here is how to do better.

Topic

Race & Ethnicity Rights & Activism

July 23, 2021

We Need LGBTQ-Affirming Learning Environments in Person or Otherwise

Teacher looking over a student's shoulder while pointing to something on their iPad.

All learning next school year—whether in-person, remote or hybrid—requires inclusive, safe spaces for students.

Topic

Gender & Sexual Identity

July 12, 2021

Students Say Teach the Truth

TT Award Winner Elizabeth Kleinrock with her students

An LFJ award winner centers her students’ perspectives in the current conversation about racism, social justice education and the need for an inclusive national narrative.

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Race & Ethnicity Gender & Sexual Identity Rights & Activism

July 6, 2021

New Resources for Protecting Immigrant Students’ Rights

Public schools have a legal obligation to enroll and support immigrant students and English language learners. New resources from the SPLC help advocates work with families to ensure schools are meeting this responsibility.

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Immigration Rights & Activism

June 15, 2021

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