Communities of Practice
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work in solidarity with base-building organizations
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recognize and remain critical of how traditional lawyering approaches reinforce systems of oppression
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honor community and organizer expertise
We facilitate spaces that:
Dignity in Schools Campaign - California
The purpose of DSC-CA is to deepen grassroots community-based understanding of the historical role and future implications of school discipline, the relationship between schools & law enforcement, and the dehumanizing impact of the public education system and expand our movement’s political opportunities to dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline, repair the intergenerational harm it has caused, and craft systemic alternatives for multiple generations.
DSC-CA membership is composed of core organizations, primarily base-building community organizing groups, that have demonstrated they are in alignment with regional collectives and have made a commitment to a movement building strategy. Membership is for organizations who have made a long term commitment to ending the school to prison pipeline. C4LL is honored to provide movement lawyering collaboration in three of DSC-CA’s regions: Los Angeles, Inland Valley and the Central Valley.
Fix School Discipline Policy Coalition
The Fix School Discipline Policy (“FSD”) Coalition is a multi-disciplinary state-wide coalition of attorneys, organizers, and policy advocates. We facilitate the Fix School Discipline Coalition alongside the Black Parallel School board. We share Coalition leadership with the FSD strategy team and work in deep partnership to maintain a statewide community of solidarity practice. Community led the way in partnership with FSD to successfully end suspensions and expulsions for disruption/defiance for students in California. FSD continues to protect this victory and advocate for shifts in educational spaces away from punitive discipline and criminalization and towards restorative approaches.
