Publications
Community Based Safety in LAUSD Must be Implemented with Greater Urgency
June 26, 2024
Police-free-LAUSD.pdf (122.3 KB)
LBUSD’s Draft LCAP Fails to Include Equity Gap Closing Actions and Goals
May 30, 2024
LBUSD-LCAP-Compliance.pdf (468.8 KB)
LCFF Equity Coalition Comments re: SBE Agenda, Items 2, 3 and 4 – May 8, 2024
May 3, 2024
AB 2441 (Kalra) – as introduced SUPPORT
April 16, 2024
Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Subcommittee No. 1 on Education Hearing on April 11, 2024; Golden State Teacher Grant Program
April 5, 2024
LCFF Equity Coalition Comments re: SBE Agenda, Items 2 and 3 - March 6, 2024
March 1, 2024
Coalition-Comments-State-Bd-Ed-School-Dashboard.pdf (1,006.0 KB)
2024 Legislative and Administrative Advocacy Agenda
February 19, 2024
In 2023, the state of Minnesota made unprecedented investments in children and their families—with particular attention to addressing longstanding opportunity gaps for children growing up in Black, Indigenous and communities of color. These investments reflected a shared commitment to making Minnesota the best state in the country to be a child and raise a family—regardless of race, income, or geography.
2024-CDF-MN-Advocacy-Agenda-1.pdf (1.2 MB)
Joint Legislative Hearing on the 2024 – 2025 New York State Executive Budget Proposal: Human Services
February 1, 2024
Testimony of Julia L. Davis, Esq.
Director of Youth Justice & Child Welfare
Children’s Defense Fund – New York
jdavis@childrensdefense.org
Testimony for the Joint Legislative Hearing on the 2024-2025 New York State Health/Medicaid Executive Budget
January 24, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic compromised the health, safety, and stability of our children, young people, and their families and communities. It also highlighted and exacerbated longstanding inequities disparately affecting communities of color.