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UCLA's Institute for Democracy Education & Access (IDEA)
www.ucla-idea.org
IDEA is a network of UCLA scholars and students, professionals in
schools and public agencies, advocates, community activists, and
urban youth. IDEA's mission is to make high quality public schooling
and successful college participation routine occurrence in low income
neighborhoods of color.
Online Journal of UCLA's IDEA
www.TeachingToChangeLA.org
Teaching to Change LA (TCLA) is an online journal that addresses
educational conditions in Los Angeles schools. K-12 students, parents,
teachers, guest contributors, and researchers provide the content
for the journal, which is published by UCLA/IDEA eight times a year
with weekly updates. Journal readers include those who learn and
teach in Los Angeles schools, local and state policymakers and legislators,
and readers from across the country.
UC ACCORD (All Campus Consortium On Research for Diversity)
www.ucaccord.gseis.ucla.edu/
UC Accord is an interdisciplinary, multi-campus research center
devoted to a more equitable distribution of educational resources
and opportunities in California's diverse public schools and universities.
Tia Chuchas / Luis Rodriguez, Author/Activist
www.tiachucha.com
Tia Chucha's Centro Cultural is a not-for-profit learning and cultural
arts center. “We support and promote the continued growth,
development and holistic learning of our community through the many
powerful means of the arts. The Centro provides a positive space
for people to activate what we all share as human beings: The capacity
to create, to imagine and to express ourselves in an effort to improve
the quality of life for our community.”
Anti-Oppressive Education
www.antioppressiveeducation.org
The Center for Anti-Oppressive Education (CAOE) believes, “that
the quality of education cannot improve unless we commit to challenging
the racism, classism, sexism, and other oppressions that permeate
our schools and societies.” Through its projects on research,
curriculum, professional development, and local advocacy, CAOE develops
and provides innovative resources for educators, leaders, students,
and advocates throughout the United States and the world.
Californians for Justice Education Fund
www.caljustice.org
Californians for Justice is a 7 year old statewide grassroots organization
working to empower communities that have been pushed to the margins
of the political process. “We bring people of color, young
people, and poor people together by leading large-scale community
education efforts, training a new generation of grassroots civil
rights leaders, and mobilizing public support for major public policy
change in California.”
Californians for Justice organizes youth and parents on statewide
and local campaigns, including last year's successful statewide
campaign to oppose and postpone the California High School Exit
Exam.
California ACORN
caacorn@acorn.org
ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now,
is the nation's largest community organization of low and moderate-income
families, with over 150,000 member families organized into 700 neighborhood
chapters in 51 cities across the country.
“Our priorities include: better housing for first time homebuyers
and tenants, living wages for low-wage workers, more investment
in our communities from banks and governments, and better public
schools. We achieve these goals by building community organizations
that have the power to win changes — through direct action,
negotiation, legislation, and voter participation.”
Public Advocates
www.publicadvocates.org
Public Advocates, Inc. is one of the oldest public interest law
firms in the nation. It was founded in 1971 to challenge the persistent,
underlying causes and effects of poverty and discrimination and
to work for the empowerment of the poor and people of color by raising
a voice for social justice in government, corporate and other institutions.
Today, its current efforts focus on education, health care, telecommunications,
employment and insurance redlining. As in its last three decades,
Public Advocates is committed to working on issues that are relevant
to poor, underrepresented communities.
Advancement Project
www.advancementproject.org
Advancement Project is a democracy and justice action group. Using
law, public policy and strategic communications, Advancement Project
acts in partnership with local communities to advance universal
opportunity, equity and access for those left behind in America.
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