Below are ten Grassroots Organizations fighting to end the school to prison pipeline. Please, donate today or volunteer some of your time.
Padres & Jovenes Unidos: https://padresunidos.org/
Padres & Jóvenes Unidos, located in Denver, 
is a multi-issue organization of students and parents that aims to reform schools by ending the school-to-prison pipeline, and protecting the rights of immigrant students. They challenge the root causes of “racism and inequity by exposing the economic, social and institutional basis for injustice.” They also strive to develop effective strategies for creating permanent change in these areas.6
Blocks Together: http://www.btchicago.org/
Blocks Together, a community organizing group in the West Humboldt Park neighborhood of Chicago’s. Seeks to empower “residents to work together for systematic changes that bring concrete improvement to their lives.” They work on issues related to education, housing, economic justice and the school-to-prison pipeline. Blocks Together emphasizes “ongoing political education and connection of our campaigns to broader social justice movements.”7
Gwinnett SToPP: http://www.gwinnettstopp.org/
Gwinnett SToPP seeks to “build and strengthen relationships within the community through public awareness, empowerment, and advocacy.” They conduct Advocacy Training Workshops which strive to increase public awareness about the school-to-prison pipeline, empower parents through a Parent Leadership Institute, and advocate for policy change via data accountability and incident reporting.8
CADRE: http://www.cadre-la.org/
Founded in Los Angeles in 2001, CADRE empowers and advance parent leadership through “parent capacity building, political education, advocacy, and organizing.” Their goal is to challenge schools’ practices that criminalize children violate their right to a quality education, dignity, and participation regardless of their color or socioeconomic background.9
Voices of Youth in Chicago Education (VOYCE): http://voyceproject.org/
VOYCE, a youth organizing alliance for racial justice for students in Chicago and Illinois, aims to: end the use of harsh discipline policies that fuel the school-to-prison pipeline, see the use of restorative discipline practices implemented in schools, limit high-stakes testing, and create high-quality learning environments. VOYCE’s work is centered around “the belief that young people who are most directly affected by educational inequity are in the best position to develop meaningful, long-lasting solutions.”10
Urban Youth Collaborative: http://www.urbanyouthcollaborative.org/
Located in New York City, the Urban Youth Collaborative “brings together New York City students to fight for real education reform that puts students first.” They are specifically focused on ending the school-to-prison pipeline, getting students from NYC public schools into college, and healing communities. The Collaborative and its members believe in using the power and energy of young people to shift “structural systems” and develop new policy.11
Youth Justice Coalition: http://www.youth4justice.org/
The Youth Justice Coalition (YJC), based in Los Angeles, works to “challenge America’s addiction to incarceration and race, gender and class discrimination” in juvenile and criminal injustice systems in California and the nation as a whole. YJC uses transformative justice strategies, community intervention and education, and police and court monitoring to challenge the policies and institutions that have led to a massive lock-up of people of color, law enforcement violence and corruption, human rights and Constitutional rights violations, the build up of the world’s largest network of private prisons, and the development of a school-to-prison pipeline.12
Californians for Justice: http://caljustice.org/
Californians for Justice (CFJ) believes in using a strategic approach to achieve justice in public schools. They utilize an Alliance, Base, Campaigns (ABC) strategy to make change. CFJ believes in developing alliances at the regional, statewide and national levels to advance their work. They believe developing a base of youth and parents across the state is critical for sustaining the educational and racial justice movement. They build their base through outreach, direct organizing, and leadership development. CFJ undertakes campaigns to “build broad support, change the public debate about educational quality, and to achieve tangible policy changes” at the state and regional level.13
Critical Resistance: http://criticalresistance.org/
Critical Resistance is an organization committed to ending the Prison Industrial Complex (PIC). Their work is critical to ending the school-to-prison pipeline because a network of private prisons–such as the one in the United States–creates conflicts of interest within government that can impair the abolition of policies, even if those policies are proven to be harmful, i.e. zero tolerance behavioral policies for youth.14
Dignity in Schools: http://www.dignityinschools.org/
The Dignity in Schools Campaign (DSC), which started in 2006 and grew to a national organization by 2009, works to end the school-to-prison pipeline via challenging the issue of “push-out” in schools. DSC empowers parents, youth, organizers, advocates and educators to “transform their own communities, support alternatives to a culture of zero-tolerance, punishment, criminalization and the dismantling of public schools, and fight racism and all forms of oppression.” They fight for the human right of every young person to a quality education and to be treated with dignity in their school and classrooms.15
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