Racial Equity and Social Justice

Support the Black Lives Matter at Schools demands:

• End zero tolerance, and implement restorative justice

• Mandate Black history & ethnic studies in K-12 curriculum

• Hire more Black teachers

• Fund counselors, not cops

Require culturally sustaining teacher training and trauma-informed, healing-centered practices

Create nurturing schools where students are safe from all forms of oppression 

End child detentions and family separation

Fight for justice and dignity for immigrants and all people

Provide equitable and affordable housing for all families

Enact universal healthcare and childcare

End child poverty and close the income inequality gap

Fully Funded Public Education Through Progressive Taxation

Ensure adequate class size, caseload limits, and student supports

Mandate professional and equitable wages

Provide a public defined-benefit pension system

Enact progressive capital gains and income taxes

End tax cuts, breaks, and loopholes for millionaires and corporations

Pro-Public Education and Anti-Privatization

Adopt a model of community schools with democratic governance

prohibit new charter schools

unionize existing charter schools and hold them accountable to our communities

advance democratic, social justice, class struggle unionism

eradicate vouchers and neo-voucher systems

end scripted curriculum and the replacement of in-person teachers with online classes

end high stakes accountability systems and linked teacher evaluations