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Documenting National Organizing toward #POLICEFREESCHOOLS (done on 6/11. follow Alliance for Educational Justice or @4edjustice)

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National BLM Week of Action in Schools

6 min readJun 3, 2020

On the heels of the student-led community victory in Minneapolis, this resource seeks to pull together campaigns and resources to inform ongoing organizing in defense of Black lives.
It’s admittedly non-exhaustive, but we want to add more! Are you working toward union resolutions, contract cutting, and other ways to shrink the funding and footprint of police in our schools? Please send us more info at blacklivesmatteratschool2@gmail.com

National Level Actions + Resources

Counselors not CopsThis set of policy recommendations calls on schools, districts, states and federal policy-makers to remove any law…
dignityinschools.org

#8ToAbolition: Remove Police From SchoolsProhibit the surveillance of Black and brown students by their teachers, counselors, and school officials through…
www.8toabolition.com

We Came to Learn: A Call to Action for Police-Free SchoolsSafety does not exist when Black and Brown young people are forced to interact with a system of policing that views…
advancementproject.org

REPORT | Do The Harder Work | Communities for Just Schools Fund"Do the Harder Work--Create Cultures of Connectedness in Schools": On December 5, 2018, the Communities for Just…
www.cjsfund.org

^working link to report.

Move School Forward: Principles for Better EducationStudents of color, especially Black and indigenous (BIPOC), Latinx and Southeast Asian students. Especially noting that…
www.moveschoolforward.org

Some school districts are cutting ties with police. What's next?Last week, as widespread protests continued over the police killing of George Floyd, the Minneapolis school board voted…
www.chalkbeat.org

Minneapolis

Minneapolis Public Schools Voted To End Its Contract With The City's Police After The Death Of…The board of Minneapolis Public Schools voted unanimously Tuesday to end the district's $1.1 million contract with the…
www.buzzfeednews.com

New York City

#641IsUnjustIn April 2020, Mayor de Blasio released $641 Million in cuts to the Department of Education (DOE) Budget for the next…
www.641isunjust.com

Sign the Petition0 have signed. Let's get to 25,000! Dekaila Wilson signed this petition... We have watched, marched, fought for…
www.change.org

Tell Mayor de Blasio: Defund the NYPD and invest in schools!This has been an incredibly painful week filled with constant reminders for why we are engaged in the struggle for…
actionnetwork.org

Chicago

We Demand Police Free Schools NOW - A Call to Action From CPS StudentsIt's time for the Chicago Board of Education and Chicago Public Schools to provide real safety to students and move…
grassrootscollaborative.salsalabs.org

We protest police in the streets, so why do we let police in our schools?File photo by Lucio Villa In the wake of the murders of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, police violence has again been…
www.chicagoreporter.com

Chicago community groups have long called to remove police from schools. Is this their moment?Spurred by theMinneapolis Public Schools ending its contract with the city's police department, the push to remove…
chicago.chalkbeat.org

EDITORIAL: Making the case for keeping cops out of Chicago's schoolsNow's the time for Chicago to get bold and remove police officers from the public schools. Now's the time to listen to…
chicago.suntimes.com

Detroit

Oakland

BOP's People's PlanOakland's racist legacy of school police. Police presence in Oakland schools has a racist past that needs to be shed…
blackorganizingproject.org

Oakland school board and superintendent back elimination of district policeOakland's superintendent and a majority of the school board have backed a proposal to get rid of the district's police…
www.sfchronicle.com

For 9 years, the Black Organizing Project has been campaigning to remove police from Oakland…Three months ago, during a special meeting of the Oakland Unified School District board of directors on March 4, dozens…
www.berkeleyside.com

San Francisco

California-Wide

Philadelphia

Sign the Petition0 have signed. Let's get to 100! Fred Pinguel signed this petition... The anger and frustration in the streets of…
www.change.org

Working Educators Stands with Black Lives MatterThe Working Educators Caucus of the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers offers our heartfelt sympathies to the family…
www.workingeducators.org

Pittsburgh

Should police be in Pittsburgh schools? Advocates' call for removal reignited in wake of Floyd's…Advocacy groups, including the ACLU of Pennsylvania, and some Pittsburgh parents have already been calling on PPS…
www.publicsource.org

Richmond, CA

Denver

We Demand Denver Public Schools Support Black Lives Matter ResolutionWe represent 11 organizations, many of which work with students, parents, and teachers in the Denver metro area, and we…
www.itsourturn.org

As protests continue, Denver to start conversation about role of police in schoolsFollowing nationwide protests of racist policing, the Denver school district is expected to begin a conversation about…
co.chalkbeat.org

Louisville

Black Lives Matter protesters, JCPS board members clash over Jeffersontown High School arrestsSecurity personnel encourage Black Lives Matter protesters, including Chanelle Helm, in black shirt, to leave the JCPS…
louisvillefuture.com

Milwaukee

Milwaukee Public Schools Immediately Terminate Contract with Milwaukee Police DepartmentMilwaukee Public Schools maintains a $478,242 dollar annual contract with the Milwaukee Police department. That means…
actionnetwork.org

Black Educators Caucus MKEBlack Educators Caucus MKE. 662 likes · 716 talking about this. The Black Educators Caucus MKE is a group of black…
www.facebook.com

From Failure to Freedom: Dismantling Milwaukee's School-to-Prison Pipeline with the Youth Power…Published By The presence of police officers, guns, handcuffs, and metal detectors in schools creates hostile teaching…
populardemocracy.org

Seattle

Students Not Suspects: The Need to Reform School Policing in Washington StateIn December of 2015, Tucker, a 13-year-old Black student in Washington state, was arrested as a result of an incident…
www.aclu-wa.org

Rochester

Email City Council: Remove Police From Rochester's Schools!Against the backdrop of police violence toward Black and Brown communities, cities around the nation are at last…
actionnetwork.org

Current city budget proposal would remove police from RCSD schoolsCLOSE Buy Photo In this file photo Rochester police officers exit Charlotte High School after a fight on the campus in…
www.democratandchronicle.com

Phoenix

Portland

Portland superintendent says he's 'discontinuing' presence of armed police officers in schoolsPortland Public Schools will no longer have city police officers patrol the halls of its nine high schools…
www.oregonlive.com

Salem, OR

Hundreds call on Salem-Keizer to end contracts for police in schools | Salem ReporterStudents organized by Latinos Unidos Siempre urged the new Salem-Keizer School Board to address the mental health needs…
www.salemreporter.com

Madison

link to Madison Teacher Association Statement (6/7/2020)

Open Letter to School Board President Gloria ReyesThe following opinion piece reflects the views of its authors, and not necessarily those of Madison365 or its staff…
madison365.com

Durham

Youth Justice Project Releases SRO Recommendations - Southern Coalition for Social JusticeDurham, NC - Members of the Youth Justice Project's Youth Steering Committee (YSC) released a series of recommendations…
www.southerncoalition.org

Education Justice Alliance, Students from Enloe High School, and SCSJ Demand that the Wake County…Durham, N.C.- Jasmin Loraine Benas, Srivani Edupuganti, Teya Franks, and Reagan Razon of Enloe High School, in…
www.southerncoalition.org

Virginia

Washington, DC

Tell D.C Leaders: We Demand Police-Free Schools!The same police that are killing Black people in the streets and that continue to harass Black youth in the community…
campaigns.organizefor.org

Columbus

New Haven

'Money For Schools, Not The Police': New Haven Youth Leaders Call For ChangeNew Haveners of all ages showed up to march against police brutality on Friday afternoon, but the protest, which drew…
www.wnpr.org

Ontario (INTERNATIONAL!)

Sign the PetitionIn November 2017, the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) voted for the removal of the School Resource Officer (SRO)…
www.change.org

Los Angeles

Strategy Center and Taking Action Call on LAUSD to Cancel $67 Million Contract with Los Angeles…Strategy Center, Bus Riders Union and Taking Action Social Justice Clubs in L.A. High Schools Call on LAUSD to Cancel…
thestrategycenter.org

San Jose

Houston

Advocates Urge HISD To Disband School Police Force | Houston Public MediaEven before George Floyd died after being handcuffed and restrained by Minneapolis pol ice, advocates were trying to…
www.houstonpublicmedia.org

Montgomery County (MD)

UK! (international)

No police in our schoolsThere should be no doubt that Boris Johnson's election victory was a monumental blow for the anti-racist left. As…
www.redpepper.org.uk

PG County, MD

Sign the PetitionTo Dr. Monica Goldson, CEO of Prince George's County Public Schools; and the Prince George's County Board of Education…
www.change.org

Advancement Project National Office Statement: We Applaud Prince George's County Public School…On Monday, June 8, Prince George's (PG) County Public School Board members will propose a measure to defund PG County…
advancementproject.org

Providence

Providence students demand Counselors, not Cops.It's time to stop criminalizing our young people, and instead provide them with the supports they need. Sign the…
actionnetwork.org

Dallas

Dallas ISD should disband its police force, advocacy groups urgeFive advocacy groups are urging the Dallas school district to disband its police force because black students and those…
www.dallasnews.com

Charlottesville

Sign the PetitionRacial justice advocates have warned for years that school police (School Resource Officers) were over-disciplining and…
www.change.org