NOTES

INTRODUCTION

1.   For a more extensive discussion of the analysis presented in this section and citations for the claims made, see Mark R. Warren, “Transforming Public Education: The Need for an Educational Justice Movement,” New England Journal of Public Policy 26, no. 1 (2014), article 11, http://scholarworks.umb.edu/nejpp/vol26/iss1/11.

1 “I CAN’T MAKE A TEACHER LOVE MY SON”

1.   Learn to Earn Dayton, Know the Gap, Close the Gap (Dayton, OH: Learn to Earn Dayton, 2017), 25–27.

2.   Jawanza Kunjufu, Understanding Black Male Learning Styles (Chicago: African American Images, 2010), 38.

3.   Jawanza Kunjufu, Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys, vol. 1 (Chicago: African American Images, 1983), chapter 2.

4.   Racial Justice NOW!, 2014 Ohio School Discipline Report Card (Dayton, OH: Racial Justice Now, 2016).

5.   Ibid.

6.   Bruce Western and Becky Pettit, “Incarceration & Social Inequality,” Daedalus 139, no. 3 (2010): 8–19.

7.   Racial Justice NOW!, 2014 Report Card.

2 #SOUTHLAPARENTLOVE

1.   CADRE, Redefining Dignity in Our Schools (Los Angeles: CADRE, 2010), 6; CADRE, How Can You Love the Kids but Hate the Parents? (Los Angeles: CADRE, 2017), 12.

4 FIGHTING FOR GENDER JUSTICE

1.   “The Schools Girls Deserve,” Girls for Gender Equity, http://www.ggenyc.org/the-schools-girls-deserve, accessed December 8, 2017.

5 THE FREEDOM TO LEARN

1.   Padres & Jóvenes Unidos, The North High School Report: The Voice of Over 700 Students (Denver: Padres & Jóvenes Unidos, 2004).

2.   Padres & Jóvenes Unidos and Advancement Project, Lessons in Racial Justice & Movement Building: Dismantling the School to Prison Pipeline in Colorado and Nationally (Denver: Padres & Jóvenes Unidos, 2014), 32.

6 #FIGHTFORDYETT

1.   Curtis Black, “Grassroots Success at Dyett High,” Chicago Newstips, December 2, 2008, http://www.newstips.org/2008/12/grassroots-success-at-dyett-high, accessed January 8, 2018; Sarah Karp, “A Second Chance: Mentoring, Better Discipline Steers Dyett Teens Away from Trouble,” Chicago Reporter, December 5, 2008, http://www.chicagoreporter.com/second-chance-mentoring-better-discipline-steers-dyett-teens-away-trouble, accessed January 8, 2018.

2.   “Tweets per Day: #Fightfordyett and #Wesupportdyett15, August 16th-September 15th,” Topsy, accessed September 16, 2015 from Topsy.com.

8 THE SCHOOL IS THE HEART OF THE COMMUNITY

1.   Motoko Rich, “Where Are the Teachers of Color?,” New York Times, April 11, 2015.

9 FIGHTING FOR TEACHERS, CHILDREN, AND THEIR PARENTS

1.   “CPS Stats and Facts,” Chicago Public Schools website, https://cps.edu/About_CPS/At-a-glance/Pages/Stats_and_facts.aspx, last modified November 13, 2017.

10 #ENDWARONYOUTH

1.   Daniel Losen et al., Are We Closing the School Discipline Gap? (Los Angeles: Center for Civil Rights Remedies, 2015).

2.   Audre Lorde, “Learning from the 60s,” in Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde, rev. ed. (New York: Crossing Press, 2007), 138.

3.   Evie Blad, “United Nations Panel Recommends Changes to U.S. School Discipline,” Rules for Engagement (blog), Education Week, February 1, 2016, http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/rulesforengagement/2016/02/united_nations_panel_recommends_changes_to_us_school_discipline.html.

11 TEACHERS UNITE!

1.   Audre Lorde, “A Burst of Light: Living with Cancer,” in I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde, ed. Rudolph P Byrd, Johnnetta Betsch Cole, and Beverly Guy-Sheftal (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009), 140.

2.   Elizabeth Sullivan and Elizabeth Keeney, Teachers Talk: School Culture, Safety, and Human Rights (New York: NESRI and Teachers Unite, 2008), 33.

3.   Eve L. Ewing, “Chicago Responds to President Trump: Artists, Writers, Musicians, Academics, Activists, and Politicians—Even Rahm!—Weigh In on the New Administration: The Threats, the Fears, the Absurdity,” Chicago Reader, January 19, 2017, https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/donald-trump-president-inauguration-responses/Content?oid=25132990.

13 SYSTEM CHANGE

1.   Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), “Latino Heritage Month,” n.d., https://home.lausd.net/apps/news/article/400975; LAUSD, “Food That’s In, When School Is Out,” June 7, 2013, https://home.lausd.net/apps/news/article/314909.

2.   Hillel Aron, “The Number of Children in L.A. Is Shrinking—Which Could Be a Disaster,” LA Weekly, March 2, 2017, http://www.laweekly.com/news/the-number-of-children-in-la-is-shrinking-which-could-be-a-disaster-7986526.

3.   LAUSD, “Suspensions Down—Student Safety Up,” August 17, 2012, https://home.lausd.net/apps/news/article/262220.

4.   LAUSD, “School Discipline Data Reports—Suspension, 2016–2017 School Year,” http://schoolinfosheet.lausd.net.

5.   Mitchell Landsberg, “L.A. Sees Graduation Rates Drop,” Los Angeles Times, June 21, 2008, http://articles.latimes.com/2008/jun/21/local/me-grads21; Mike Szymanski, “LAUSD’s Graduation Rate Tops 80 Percent, Surpassing Its Own Goals,” LA School Report, September 12, 2017, http://laschoolreport.com/lausds-graduation-rate-tops-80-percent-surpassing-its-own-goals.

15 #SCHOOLISMYHUSTLE

1.   Steve Biko, “Black Consciousness and the Quest for a True Humanity,” Ufahamu: A Journal of African Studies 8, no. 3 (1978): 6.

2.   US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates (2016), retrieved from Census Reporter profile page for California, https://censusreporter.org/profiles/04000US06-california.

3.   Leigh Patel, Decolonizing Educational Research: From Ownership to Answerability (London: Routledge, 2016), 4.

4.   Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed (New York: Herder and Herder, 1970), 69.

16 JANITORS ARE PARENTS TOO!

1.   Veronica Terriquez, “Schools for Democracy: Labor Union Participation and the School-Based Civic Engagement of Latino Immigrant Parents,” American Sociological Review 76, no. 4 (2011): 581–601.

17 THE SAME STRUGGLE

1.   US Bureau of the Census, Statistical Abstract (Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 2015).

2.   Ibid.

3.   José Calderón and Pomona Habla Coalition, unpublished research (2008).

4.   Ernesto Arce, “Pomona Residents March Against Racist Checkpoints,” Liberation, June 3, 2008, 1.

5.   Calderón and Pomona Habla Coalition, unpublished research.