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From left, Casey Saeliew, a Richmond High student and youth organizer from Youth Together, Avillene Covarrubias, a Richmond High student and youth organizer from Youth Together, and Trina Montgomery, a Richmond High student. Photo: Poor News Network Photo by William Romero Rethinking Schools: Teaching Is Not Testing The stores were small, low roofed,
and peeling paint. The storefront
signs were oddly sized, lettered in
handmade cursive font, and prone to
losing their neon. Through the steam
rising from the sun-baked asphalt in
front of my car, I spotted a large block
of faded red brick fronted by an aging
marquis: Richmond High School.
Photo Joanna Jhanda/West County Times 3rd Graders Host an “After-School Special” for School Board Candidates Justice Matters leads a workshop with low-income students and parents of color in Wendy Gonzalez 3rd Grade class at Ford Elementary School. The West Contra Costa School Board Candidates present are educated on what is really going on in their district's classrooms. (Thursday, November 26th)
Luz and Emma, parent leaders from West Contra Costa County, present a proposal for a standing meeting to the new superintendent of West Contra Costa County, Bruce Harter, at the Cook-Out & Speak-Up BBQ in Richmond on August 5th, 2006. What Happens When Testing is all you care about? Justice Matters in collaboration with Youth Together and parent leaders from West Contra Costa County welcomed the District's new superintendent of schools, Dr. Bruce Harter, at a community forum and BBQ. This event was part of Justice Matters' ongoing campaign in the district entitled REAL Schools NOW! • Read more on this powerful event at: poormagazine.org
Youth and organizers, Marquita Griffin, Iris Padilla and Raul
Alcarez from Youth Together, speaking at a West Contra Costa School
Board hearing on April 10th 2006 in favor of a proposal by Board
member Dave Brown to offer students an alternative to the Exit
Exam Exit Exam Challenged! POOR Magazine youth intern who didn't pass the California High School Exit Exam (CAHSEE) is inspired by the media campaign Justice Matters organized in West Contra Costa County. He pens a first-person narrative on the media campaign and subsequent legal challenges to CAHSEE that were recently decided on. Antonio William/PNN Youth in Media "How can they talk about us standing on corners, using drugs, we are hard-working students trying to get an education," a Latina Richmond High School Student wiped tears from her eyes as she spoke into the corporate media lens. She was speaking outside a school board hearing in April on the California High School Exit Exam(CAHSEE). • Read more at: poormagazine.org
Richmond High School student and Youth Together member
Avillene Covarrubias speaking to the media at an April 2006 press
conference organized by Justice Matters and Youth Together which
preceded the West Contra Costa Unified School District hearing on
an alternative proposal to the Exit Exam Real Schools Now Campaign in support of an alternative to the California High School Exit Exam (CAHSEE). As part of Justice Matters’ Real Schools Now campaign in West Contra Costa schools, we developed The Senior Year Demonstration, an alternative to CAHSEE. This alternative was proposed as a landmark challenge to the CAHSEE by West Contra Costa Unified School Board member Dave Brown on April 10, 2006 Articles online: Articles for download:
Students and Families Demand a Voice in the Superintendent Hiring Process. The School Board Listens. Justice Matters' REAL Schools Now campaign worked with West Contra Costa school board members to hold a public forum on the school superintendent hire • Read more at: poormagazine.org
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Photo Barry Schwartz
A celebration of Justice Matters 10th year Anniversary Thanks to all of the Justice Matters fellows, founders, board
members, partner organizations, students and families who made
our 10 year anniversary celebration in September the amazing night
of justice, food and fun that it was. Click on a photo below to
enlarge.
Graphic courtesy of POOR Magazine/PoorNewsNetwork From Institutional Racism to Racially
Just Institutions About the Series: Re-shaping institutions to reflect OUR Communities While continuing the far from finished fight for access, how can we make the institutions and fields that we target reflect the cultures, values, and aspirations of the groups who have been shut out? This series will explore strategies for building institutions that treat everyone with respect and dignity, and that embrace all the cultures and languages within our society. Our discussions will examine how two policy areas might look different if they were shaped by the vision of marginalized communities: Criminal Justice - Tuesday, December 6 Education - Monday, April 10
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