Ending policing and privatization are two ways that we are working to end anti-Blackness and to prioritize the leadership, experiences, and knowledge of Black people. We want to stop charter the school expansion and reconstitutions that target Black, indigenous, and low-income communities. These practices treat students, families, and teachers like problems rather than seeing us as beautiful, creative, and human.  We want public schools to be places that welcome, support, and work with Black students rather than excluding, criminalizing, and pushing us out.

We use political education to name and challenge all oppressive systems that harm people at school and beyond. By learning and teaching histories of dignity and resistance by oppressed communities, we build unity among people for the sake of increasing justice. As part of Making Black Lives Matter in Schools, we learn to recognize, name, and speak to the ways that anti-Blackness plays out in schools. When we understand these dynamics, we can better organize to end those conditions and create solutions that support the health and well-being of all Black youth and communities.  

We want real support for Black communities, indigenous communities, and poor and working class communities of color. This means schools with smaller class sizes and more arts, electives, college counselors, therapists, librarians, custodians, and healthcare services.  When our communities have well-funded and high quality public schools, we don't need to turn to charter schools or rely on policing. We must DIVEST from a culture and a budget that polices Black students and INVEST in the well-being of Black students.

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