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Virginia Organizing Rally to Call on Local Officials to Address School-to-Prison Pipeline

Virginia Organizing Rally to Call on Local Officials to Address School-to-Prison Pipeline

What: Rally to support students in the community and to hold local officials accountable for promises made to disrupt the school-to-prison pipeline When: Saturday, June 25 at 11 a ...

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Editorial: Kicking out students perpetuates problem

Editorial: Kicking out students perpetuates problem

Published by The Free Lance-Star When a child acts out in school, it’s a problem for everyone involved—fellow students, teachers, administrators and the child’s parents. But it ma ...

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Virginia Organizing Fredericksburg Chapter to Hold Community Meeting on School Discipline Issues

Virginia Organizing Fredericksburg Chapter to Hold Community Meeting on School Discipline Issues

What: “School to Prison Pipeline” Community Workshop When: Tuesday, February 2 at 7 p.m. Where: Lee Hall 412, University of Mary Washington (1301 College Avenue, Fredericksburg, V ...

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Racism on Campus is Nothing New. A Sustained Anti-Racist Campus Movement Would Be.

Racism on Campus is Nothing New. A Sustained Anti-Racist Campus Movement Would Be.

Published by the Alliance for a Just Society. As a first-year student at Brown University I was detained for trespassing by campus security. In my own dorm.  In sock feet. You see ...

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Va. school boards’ anti-discrimination stands can mention sexual orientation

Va. school boards’ anti-discrimination stands can mention sexual orientation

Originally posted on the Washington Post on March 4, 2015. RICHMOND — Local school boards have the authority to include sexual orientation and gender identity in their anti-discri ...

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Danville Students Involved in Making Change!

Danville Students Involved in Making Change!

Last month, the Danville Chapter worked with a group of students to engage in the community dialogue regarding issues that are important to them. Students wrote letters to the edi ...

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What is Del. Marshall thinking?

What is Del. Marshall thinking?

The following letter to the editor was published in the Danville Register and Bee and was writen by Viriginia Organizing leader Maxine Jackson: What is Del. Marshall thinking? By: ...

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Education Reform in Fredericksburg

Education Reform in Fredericksburg

Education reform continues to be the topic of many national policy conversations. Virginia Organizing's Fredericksburg members interested in the issue have been thinking about edu ...

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YachtsVs. Schools: The Need for a Balanced Approach to State’s Budget Problems

YachtsVs. Schools: The Need for a Balanced Approach to State’s Budget Problems

Call to Action: Danville Residents Call on the General Assembly and the Governor to Restore Budget Cuts and Bring Balance Back to Virginia Danville, VA- Virginia Organizing held a ...

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Residents to Gather in Front of School Board Building to Call on Leaders to Restore Cuts and Bring Balance Back to Virginia

Residents to Gather in Front of School Board Building to Call on Leaders to Restore Cuts and Bring Balance Back to Virginia

Seesaw Demonstration to Illustrate the Need for a Balanced Approach to State’s Ongoing Budget Problems Fredericksburg, VA- On Tuesday, September 14, Virginia Organizing will hold ...

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