Call to action after Virginia Organizing and other groups make presentations to Lynchburg School Board meeting on February 5
At the Lynchburg School Board on February 5, Virginia Organizing and other groups presented comments about the high rate of school suspensions and the policies that restrict forme ...
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Leader Tyran Green Briefs Congressional Staff on Underfunding of IDEA
The Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools hosted a briefing for U.S. House staffers on January 25, 2019, focused on their report, Confronting the Education Debt. The briefing highlight ...
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Suspension Rates at Danville Public Schools Among Worst in State: One in Five K-12 Students Suspended
Danville, Va.—The Danville Chapter of Virginia Organizing is calling on the Danville Public Schools administration to address the suspensions crisis in city schools. In a recent r ...
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Progress for School Fairness in Lynchburg
The Lynchburg Chapter of Virginia Organizing has been organizing for alternatives to school suspension for some time and their hard work is helping to make change happen! Last nig ...
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The School-to-Prison Pipeline and Virginia Organizing
I joined the Portsmouth Chapter of Virginia Organizing two years ago because a friend of mine told me I could get help for my son there. He was suspended and threatened with expul ...
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My Daughter was also in the School-to-Prison Pipeline
I started trying to get my daughter the help she needed when she was still in elementary school. She didn’t pass the SOLs, even after we hired a tutor for her. I initiated a child ...
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My Daughter was in the School-to-Prison Pipeline
When my daughter’s 6th grade teacher called to tell me she had been caught looking at a cell phone in class, she had already given her an in-school suspension. The teacher said he ...
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My Son was in the School-to-Prison Pipeline
The Assistant Principal of my son’s school called to tell me and my husband that our son had received a three-day out-of-school suspension for fighting. They told me he had starte ...
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South Hampton Roads and Staunton/Augusta/Waynesboro Chapters of Virginia Organizing Protest Cuts to Education and Health Care
What: Rallies to Protect Funding of Public Education and Health Care When: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 at 3:30 p.m. (Staunton) and 5:00 p.m. (Norfolk) Where: Outside Bob Goodlat ...
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NRV Chapter Calls on School Board to Fight Racism
On August 15, leaders and supporters from the New River Valley Chapter of Virginia Organizing attended the Montgomery County School Board's regular meeting to ask for a public sta ...
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