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ORGANIZATIONS on the
East Coast
Youth Education Alliance The Youth
Education Alliance is a group of teenagers and young adults who know
that we have the power to make a change. We bring youth together to
identify the problems in our schools and solve them collectively.
Through direct action and community education, we hold city leaders
and school officials accountable to young people in our nation’s
capital.
Good Schools Pennsylvania
A statewide campaign that combines education policy, grassroots
organizing, and a high profile communications strategy to create a
movement for education justice.
Youth United for
Change Youth United for Change (Y.U.C) is an
organization dedicated to developing young leaders in Philadelphia and
empowering them to improve the quality of education and services in
their communities to better meet their needs. This is done through a
process of institution-based community organizing where a diverse
group of young people comes together to identify common concerns and
takes collective action to address them.
Sistas and Brothas United SBU involves youth in community action in the
northwest Bronx. Some of their recent education initiatives include:
school facilities campaigns that brought about substantial
improvements in facilities and resources at several neighborhood high
schools; teacher and student surveys and youth-initiated professional
development aimed at improving teacher quality in area high schools; a
proposal for a new small school called The Leadership Institute for
Social Justice, partnering with Fordham University and with a
community action theme.
Youth in Action Founded in 1999 by a senior at the Met School
in Providence, Rhode Island, Youth in Action is a youth-driven
organization aimed at empowering young people to develop and implement
programs that improve the community, schools, and the lives of teens.
 Philadelphia
Students Union
Blending community organizing and leadership development, PSU
organizes and trains students at five public high schools across the
city, offering them an antidote to anonymity and alienation. Over the
last 8 years they have fought against declining school budgets,
crumbling learning environments, school uniforms, and more.
Boston Youth Organizing Project
BYOP is a live community of youth and adults who are fighting for
justice in the Boston-area and beyond!. They have units in 22 high schools from suburbs to
inner city areas and have taken on such issues as reopening recreational
facilities, extending the hours of public transportation passes,
cleaning up school facilities, student/teacher relations, and are now
getting into quality of education.
Revolt Against Terrible Schools
This website includes a Student Protest Guide, information
on organizing a walkout, a 'zine making guide, how to resist, and
tales of protest, all created by young people.
Students Against Testing This national organization based in New Jersey
was created to be a strong force against the score-obsessed education
machine known as standardized testing. At the same time, SAT also
exists as an advocate for bringing positive, creative and real-life
learning activities into the schools.
 Make the Road by Walking A not-for-profit, membership-led organization based in Bushwick,
Brooklyn, composed mostly of low-income Latino and African-American
residents. Its Youth Power Project encourages community youth, aged
5-19, to become leaders in their neighborhood and activists in their
schools.
Community
Collaborative to Improve District Nine Schools
This Bronx-based organization was created to build a base of community
support and power to change schools. CC9 is comprised of students,
parents, neighborhood residents and seven community-based
organizations in the Bronx.
TOOLS
In the
Student Organizing
Library
Articles, books, videos, and plans to
teach and share student-led community organizing on education reform and school
improvement. Look for...
Student Activism Success Stories
Collection of stories about student-led organizing from across
the United States focusing on students changing schools.
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