OFFICIALS WITHIN OUR GOVERNMENTAL SYSTEM WILL DEMONSTRATE THEIR COMMITMENT
TO PURSUING EDUCATION EQUITY BY:

Working to ensure all students, regardless of circumstances or location, have access to opportunities
to succeed in the classroom and beyond

Raising awareness & empowering students affected by the systemic racism in the educational system

Demonstrating a commitment to addressing the financial challenges of the city’s most
vulnerable and disenfranchised school districts

Promoting youth justice in Sacramento, (e.g. advocating for trauma-informed counselors and other resources that should replace “School Resource Officers”)

Committing to dismantling the school-to-prison pipeline

Education Equity

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City budget part 2: The RydeFreeRT saga
Steinberg, Education, Environment, Health, Budget, Transparency, city council
City budget part 2: The RydeFreeRT saga
Steinberg, Education, Environment, Health, Budget, Transparency, city council

TL;DR: Sacramento City Manager - and all around disappointment - Howard Chan attempted to remove funding for the RydeFreeRT program (a program that costs the City $1M...by contrast, this budgeting cycle we gave the police a $30M raise), but thanks in large part to community mobilization, this program will remain funded for another year! Unfortunately the City only covered $250,000 of the cost, with the remaining $750,000 being split between Sac RT and the Sacramento, Natomas, Elk Grove, and Twin Rivers Unified school districts. Permanent funding for this program will continue to be fought for.

Steinberg, Education, Environment, Health, Budget, Transparency, city council
The Beauty of Acting Out of Character
Education, Criminal
The Beauty of Acting Out of Character
Education, Criminal

As a Black woman, I find the concept of acting out of character so interesting. Acting out of character, what a phrase. Shakespeare once said, “All the world’s a stage, all the men and women merely players.”

Education, Criminal
You want me to keep paying more and getting less?
Steinberg, Education, Criminal, Budget, Transparency
You want me to keep paying more and getting less?
Steinberg, Education, Criminal, Budget, Transparency

Today, we’re reporting back on a conversation we had with Eleanor Oliver, a member of Decarcerate Sacramento, who took the time to share their story regarding the criminal legal system with us!

Steinberg, Education, Criminal, Budget, Transparency
Side Eye: Sac Area Schools don’t offer the security you believe
Education, Side eye
Side Eye: Sac Area Schools don’t offer the security you believe
Education, Side eye

As I stand at the Buckeye school board’s meeting for the forced outing of queer children, listening to parent’s fear of their children “daring” to be queer prioritized over my community's safety, I think “I’ve been warning my friends to pay attention.”

Education, Side eye
Community Meeting field report! February 2023 edition.
Social Justice Culture, Education
Community Meeting field report! February 2023 edition.
Social Justice Culture, Education

Welcome to SJPC's first Community Meeting field report!

We'll be bringing you these updates each month following our Community Meetings so that, even if you couldn't make the meeting, you can catch up with other Sacramentans involved in social justice work.

Social Justice Culture, Education
TRUSD and the importance of transparency
Social Justice Culture, Education
TRUSD and the importance of transparency
Social Justice Culture, Education

Today we're bringing y'all a report back from an interview between SJPC editor and Dwight Harvey, a former Vice Principal (4 years) at Rio Linda Highschool, about the year he spent working as a Coordinator for the Twin Rivers Unified School District's Department of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (DEDI).

Social Justice Culture, Education