Our Library

Welcome to CADRE’s Online Library. We hope you will find it useful to be able to access and download these resources.

Wherever possible we have included translations of these files into Spanish.  The Library will continue to grow. Feel free to contact us with any feedback or requests by emailing us at webadmin@cadre-la.org or calling (323) 752-9997, ext. 311.

2017

• How Can You Love The Kids But Hate The Parents? A shadow report on the unfulfilled promises of LAUSD school discipline reform in South LA

2012

• Demanding Dignity in Our Schools: Calling for Full Implementation of School-Wide Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports in LAUSD South LA Schools
  — The sources document for the 2017 CADRE Shadow Report
• Health Impact Assessment of School Discipline Policies:  A Health Impact Assessment of Exclusionary School Discipline, Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports, and Restorative Justice Policies in Three California School Districts, May 2012 – EXECUTIVE SUMMARY     In Spanish (same as below)
• Análisis del Impacto a la Salud que Tienen las Políticas de Disciplina en las Escuelas:  Un Análisis de la Situación de Salud en Relación a la Disciplina Excluyente en las Escuelas, la Intervención y el Apoyo e Intervenciones Positivas de Comportamiento, y Políticas de Justicia Restaurativa en Tres Distritos Escolares en California, Maio de 2012 — RESUMEN EJECUTIVO     En inglés  (same as above)

2010

• Redefining Dignity in Our Schools:  A Shadow Report on School-Wide Positive Behavior Support (SWPBS) Implementation in South Los Angeles, 2007 – 2010, June 2010 – EXECUTIVE SUMMARY     In Spanish  (same as below)
• La Redefinición de la Dignidad en Nuestras Escuelas:  Informe Sombra de la Implementación de la Política Apoyo Positivo del Comportamiento en Todas las Escuelas en el Sur de Los Angeles, 2007-2010, Junio del 2010 – RESUMEN EJECUTIVO     En inglés  (same as above)
• Redefining Dignity in Our Schools:  A Shadow Report on School-Wide Positive Behavior Support (SWPBS) Implementation in South Los Angeles, 2007 – 2010, June 2010 – FULL LENGTH REPORT (includes data tables)

2007

• A Parent-Led Victory in the Fight to End Pushout in Los Angeles Schools, Summer 2007       Please see below for LAUSD Policy
• Bringing a Human Rights Vision to Public Schools:  A Training Manual for Organizers, Spring 2007     In Spanish  (same as below)
• Construyendo una Visión de Derechos Humanos en las Escuelas Públicas:  Una manual de entrenamiento para organizadores, Primavera de 2007    En inglés (same as above)

2006

• More Education.  Less Suspension.  A Call to Action to Stop the Pushout Crisis in South Los Angeles, June 2006

2004

• We interrupt this crisis — with our side of the story:  Relationships between South Los Angeles Parents and Schools, October 2004     In Spanish  (same as below)
• Interrumpimos esta crisis — con nuestra parte de la historia:  Relaciones Entre Los Padres del Sur de Los Angeles y las Escuelas, Octubre del 2004     En inglés  (same as above)

Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) Policy Documents & Resources

• 2013 School Discipline and School Climate Bill of Rights, adopted May 14, 2013  (NEW)
• LAUSD’s School-Wide Positive Behavior Support (SWPBS) Policy – Bulletin 3638.0, adopted March 27, 2007Attachments (includes available Spanish attachments)

Publications in which CADRE’s work is featured

• Fix School Discipline:  How We Can Fix School Discipline Tookit, Public Counsel Law Center, 2013
• Perfecting Our Union:  Human Rights Success Stories from Across the United States, U.S. Human Rights Fund, March 2010
  
• Deprived of Dignity:  Degrading Treatment and Abusive Discipline in New York City & Los Angeles Public Schools, National Economic and Social Rights Initiative, March 2007