Across the United States and around the world, students are organizing themselves into energized, focused and powerful organizations in order to promote student voice in education reform in substantive and meaningful ways.
Working with adults as allies, students across the United States are stepping outside schools to organize youth and communities to improve schools. Leading sophisticated campaigns, they are compiling signature petitions, picketing school boards, holding teach-ins, and doing more to insist schools pay attention to social justice, promote equity among students, deconstruct the school-to-prison pipeline, and more.
Following are some examples of student organizing for education reform.
Midwest
- Chicago Youth United, Chicago, IL
- Youth Action, Chicago, IL
- Students 4 Justice, Chicago, IL
- Students United, Chicago, IL
- Voices of Youth in Chicago Education (VOYCE), Chicago, IL
- Hope Street Youth Organizing, Topeka, KS
- Youth Empowerment Project, Columbus, OH
North East
- Make the Road by Walking, New York City, NY
- Youth Education Alliance, Washington, DC
- YOUNG Coalition, New York City, NY
- Youth United for Change, Philadelphia, PA
- Boston Youth Organizing Project, Boston, MA
- Baltimore Algebra Project, Baltimore, MD
- Alliance for Educational Justice, Washington, DC
- Philadelphia Student Union, Philadelphia, PA
- Providence Student Union, Providence, RI
- Sistas and Brothas United, New York City, NY
South
- Carolina Alliance for Fair Employment, Charleston, SC
- Sunflower County Parents and Students Organization, Indianola, MS
- Tunica Teens in Action, Tunica, MS
- Citizens for Quality Education / Southern Echo, Jackson, MS
- ReThinkers, New Orleans, LA
West
- Seattle Young Peoples Project, Seattle, WA
- Inner City Struggle , Los Angeles, CA
- Youth Making a Change , Oakland, CA
- REAL HARD, Oakland, CA
- Youth Together, Oakland, CA
- Student Activist Alliance, Portland, OR
- South Central Youth Empowered through Action, Los Angeles, CA
- Sisters in Action for Power, Portland, OR
- Southwest Organizing Project (SWOP), Albuquerque, NM
- Jovenes Unidos, Denver, CO
National
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