Accomplishments

Accomplishments and Long-Term Goals

Our First 5 Years (2001 – 2006)

• Spoke to over 4,000 parents and built our own grassroots database of South LA parents
• Published an action research report entitled: “We Interrupt This Crisis – With Our Own Side of the Story: Relationships Between South LA Parents and Schools
• Filed and resolved two dozen complaints about inadequate resources to ensure compliance with the 2004 Williams v. California settlement
• Received media coverage in major and ethnic community newspapers, public radio, and television newscasts, such as the Los Angeles Times, La Opinión, KPFK 90.7, KPCC 89.3, KNBC Channel 4, and Univisión KMEX
• Collected nearly 50 stories of suspensions and over 120 surveys of youth who did not finish high school in our human rights documentation project, resulting in a report, “More Education. Less Suspension. A Call to Action to Stop the Pushout Crisis in South Los Angeles”
• Held a “people’s hearing” on school discipline practices and pushout attended by 100 people
• Influenced and secured LAUSD’s adoption of the most progressive and comprehensive district-wide school discipline policy in the nation, based on positive behavior support