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As national civil and human rights organizations and leaders committed to the protection of the rights of African Americans and all Americans, we come together as a unified collective to urgently impress upon elected officials, law enforcement, the legal profession, businesses and all those in [...]

Boston – July 29 – Advocacy groups around the world are urging McDonald’s CEO, Don Thompson, to stand by his assertion that Ronald McDonald does not make appearances in schools. At McDonald’s 2014 Annual Shareholder Meeting, Mr. Thompson said, “in schools and our restaurants you [...]

Dream Defenders Across Florida Launch Summer Voter Mobilization Project In Lead Up to 2014 Election.Dream Defenders commemorate the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Civil Rights Movement’s 1964 Freedom Summer with a Multi-county Voter Awareness and Education Campaign. Youth in nine major Florida [...]

EVENT RECAP – Over 500 parents, students and educators rallied in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on May 13th, the 60th anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision. The rally kicked off a National Week of Action organized by the Alliance [...]

Reclaiming the Promise of Public Education...A Journey For Justice We Are Reclaiming Our Public Schools: 60 Years After– Reclaiming the Promise of Public Education May 13, 2014 We are reclaiming our public schools. We demanding that the promise of [...]

Post by IDEA. The J4J Children Are Not Collateral Damage Webinar – May 9th 2014 – 8:30PM ET Jitu Brown, National Director of J4J Alliance, Deborah Meier, Educator for near fifty years, Activist, and President of Save Our Schools Board, Chicago's Dyett High School Students, [...]

Originally Published at Opportunity to Learn. Tuesday April 23rd, 2013 Mass school closings have become a hallmark of today's dominant education policy agenda. But rather than helping students, these closures disrupt whole communities. And as U.S. Department of Education data suggests, the most recent rounds of mass [...]

Partnerships, NOT Pushouts - New "Whole-Child" Policy Guide for School Board Members Tuesday April 22nd, 2014 In today’s global economy, a high quality, comprehensive education is no longer just a pathway to opportunity – it's a prerequisite to success. Students must now possess not only academic knowledge [...]

Fulfilling the Promise of Brown v. Board: Organizing for Educational Justice for All 
 We Demand... (For More Details Click on the Plus Signs to the Left of Each Demand) Schools can play an instrumental [...]