| Issue #5 - the Double Issue - hits the Web on May 1 with the feature articles addressing Educational Right #6. Two weeks later, articles relating to Right #7 - School Testing - will be added to the journal. We hope you enjoy this issue and please return for the new contributions! |
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  In Solidarity with the DoubleTree Hotel Workers
In recent weeks, students and teachers in Santa Monica have begun to talk about the battle to unionize local hotel workers as a critical educational issue in their community. This battle pits workers interested in earning a living wage and decent benefits against the management at Santa Monica’s Doubletree Hotel. Workers have charged that management has routinely harassed the leaders of the organizing effort, creating an increasingly unsafe and insecure work environment. Students and teachers argue that many of the Doubletree workers are graduates of Santa Monica’s schools or parents of current students. Further, they point out that the Doubletree Hotel sits on land leased by the Santa Monica Malibu Unified School District. In this special series for Teaching To Change LA, students and teachers raise their collective voices, calling upon the School District to stand in solidarity with the Doubletree workers.
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------ Special May Feature • Safe Jobs for Youth Month ------
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Feature Article: Making the Difference
UCLA-LOSH has created "Safe Jobs for Youth (SJFY)" to give young people tools to promote workplace safety.
by Marianne Browne & Laurie Kominski of UCLA's LOSH Program
"Every six minutes somewhere in the U.S. a teen is injured seriously enough to go to a hospital, or emergency room."
Interview with Marianne Browne & Laurie Kominski
Brown and Kominski discuss the conception and evolution of the LOSH Youth Project.
Interviewed by Solange Castro Belcher
Student Voices
 Student Forum on UCLA's LOSH Program
"I never knew about rights. Now I actually tell people. I try to let them know what their work rights are as workers."
Student Voices
Interviews with Nancy Morales and Juan García
Interviewed by Solange Castro Belcher
Two college students reflect on the importance of their participation as peer educators in the Youth Project on issues of safety, youth, and workers' rights.
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What does a safe school look like?
 Parents involved in the Parent U-Turn program share a checklist that they developed to aid parents and community members assess the safety of a school.
Towards A Humanizing Approach to School Safety
by Teresa Viramontes, Santa Monica Community Liason
"We need to provide the kind of guidance, support and assistance that recognizes the student as a human being."
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Student Voices
Logan Street Elementary:
On School Safety
Student Voices from Logan Street Elementary
Third grade students from Logan Street Elementary comment on the places in their school where they feel the most safe and the least safe. |
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Student Voices
Lincoln High:
An Interview with Barrio Artist Edgar Mora
Public Safety and Public Art:
An Interview with Barrio Artist Edgar Mora, 11th Grader, Lincoln Senior High School
Interviewed by Manuel Espinosa
"People think if it's not in a frame in a museum, that it's not art. Some emotions are too big to be put on paper." |
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The Right to Safety from Sexual Harassment: An Interview with ACLU Attorney Rocio Córdoba
Interviewed by Solange Castro Belcher
"Sexual Harassment in schools is a very serious issue," states ACLU attorney Rocio Córdoba who discusses students' right to an environment free from sexual harassment and her new advocacy organization, the Latina Rights Project.
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 Are We Bad Kids?
(reprinted from Education Organizing)
"There are too many police who see Latino kids as a problem on the outside. So when they show up in the schools, it's no wonder that these same students feel less, not more safe." |
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