The Education Justice Coalition (EJC), a consortium of youth advocacy and civil rights groups, today released a new report that examines the historical failures of Los Angeles County’s juvenile detention system and the current conditions that young people incarcerated face.
Los Angeles County has failed to ensure access
to the essential tool of a quality, culturally affirming, robust, and individualized education to the
thousands of students under its care in juvenile detention facilities each year. This failure
disproportionately affects low-income communities of color and persists due to the lack of
transparent and responsive accountability mechanisms.
On Wednesday, July 23, more than 125 young people will gather alongside Children’s Defense Fund-California at the SEED School of Los Angeles County, in South Los Angeles, for a youth-led arts celebration advocating the belief that public education be treated as a public good in America.
