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By Gene Dean
The second annual Politics and Pedagogy conference was held Saturday at Theodore Roosevelt High School, creating an opportunity for students from various Los Angeles-area high schools to teach about a range of social justice issues within their communities...
LISTEN: School Hopes Talking It Out Keeps Kids From Dropping Out
Out-of-school suspensions are on the rise across the country, a troubling statistic when you consider being suspended just once ups a student’s chances of dropping out entirely.
Today marks a landmark.
Almost a month after more than 300 students and peacemakers from Long Beach traveled to Capitol hall in Sacramento to push legislators to pass policies that ban harsh school discipline and Governor Jerry Brown’s Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF), the proposal was adopted into the budget on June 17...
Do school uniforms help to provide less distractions? Do they improve attendance? Do they increase school pride?..
As part of our school discipline coverage, here is the second in our series of personal narratives about what happens in high school detention. ..
Interactive Map by Angel Kastanis
Four pieces of legislation are revamping the education system as we know it...
Long Beach Unified might want to hide the report card it got last month...
Empty classrooms sit unoccupied while posters of the food pyramid and a woman’s reproductive cycle collect dust on the walls...
New America Media, Question & Answer, Nicole Hudley
Ed. Note: Data shows that one in 9 students are suspended nationally, with racial disparities widening...
As the People’s State of the City gears up this upcoming Thursday, VoiceWaves asked some of its youth what they thought were some of the biggest issues facing Long Beach youth right now...
Hundreds of students and parents showed up in support for the launch of the “Every Student Matters” (ESM) campaign this past weekend at Cesar Chavez Park...
ACEsTooHigh, News Feature, Jane Ellen Stevens
Photo (above): Andre Griggs, after school program director, Le Grand High School
EDITOR’S NOTE: Following is an excerpt of the first of a series of articles about how schools in California are moving from a punitive to a supportive, compassionate approach to school discipline...
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