Students, parents, teachers and allies addressed Fresno Unified’s school board members during a school discipline workshop on April 10th. Their message: restorative justice is the answer to keeping students in school, learning.
Category: Education
For any high school senior, this concluding year is stressful on many interchangeable extremes. As a senior I know this firsthand. My already busy schedule was becoming constantly busier by the hour, filled with college admission forms and endless searches for family financial records to complete the even longer process that is applying for financial aid.
Jane Carretero’s letter to the editor of The Fresno Bee was published on Tuesday, March 12th.
The mom, an obvious Bullard parent stated that Edison has always been bad news and she was scared for this game. When I told her I was an Edison student she was slightly shocked.
More than three years ago, a group of Fresno youths launched an effort to remake the city’s public education system. We knew that too many young people were dropping out of high school and we wanted to stop this epidemic. This youth team called itself SUCCESS (Students United to Create a Climate of Engagement Support and Safety), and we did a tremendous amount of research over the past few years.