Here’s the vision:

Schools where Black students, and all students of color, walk the hallways feeling safe … instead of being made to feel like criminals walking past armed cops, who arrest and assault their friends.

Schools that remove all forms of policing—not just police with badges—and provide a liberatory education system that enables students to thrive.

Schools where students have the opportunity to learn that they deserve in a truly safe environment free of violence by police. 

Here's how we make that vision a reality—and why we need your help: it starts by taking an unflinching look at the reality facing Black and Latine students in our schools. The latest step forward is our new report, #AssaultAtSpringValley: An analysis of police violence against Black and Latine students in public schools. This analysis dramatically illustrates how school policing places students, especially Black students, at a significant risk of criminalization and assault, as evidenced by the heartbreaking, far-too-frequent videos of school police officers using physical force on children.

It’s up to us to advance a new vision of what is possible in police-free schools.

Please make a holiday gift to Advancement Project to help us make education for all students possible.

We know changing our schools to be safer for students of color won’t be easy. There are so many interests who are invested in the criminalization of our youth, from those who profit from the privatization of schools to the prison industrial complex that benefit from policing students of color. 

The only way we can make change is through those of us who stand for justice envisioning and demanding a different future for our children. It’s through the generosity of supporters like you who are willing to reimagine how our schools can be places of safety and learning, instead of fear and violence, that we can make schools places for students of color to dream, grow, and lead.

Please read our new report to help us make this new vision of schools a reality for all students.

In Solidarity,
Katherine Dunn
Program Director, Opportunity to Learn

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