California

  • Untold Stories Behind one of America's Best Urban School Districts

    Untold Stories Behind One of America's Best Urban School Districts focuses on recent education equity and racial justice trends in LBUSD related to school climate. The report explores how students, especially students of color and high-need students--low-income, English Learner, special education, and foster youth--have been impacted in recent years by exclusionary school climate practices. The findings and recommendations in this report seek to encourage more district-community collaboration that supports student learning and a universal pathway to college and career for LBUSD students--particularly high-need students.

  • Child Poverty

    Ending Child Poverty Now: Local Approaches for California

    Ending Child Poverty Now: Local Approaches to California outlines six strategic priorities that cities and counties should consider when addressing child poverty. These recommendations were developed after in-depth interviews and discussions with local leaders and policy experts between June and September 2016, in addition to a review of the literature. While this report does not represent an exhaustive evaluation of the many effective local strategies that invest in poor children and families, each strategic priority includes local highlights of significant promising practices for city and county leaders to consider.

  • Youth Converge on Sacramento to #FreeOurDreams

    Nearly 500 youth and adult allies – including CDF-CA youth leaders from Long Beach – made their voices heard in Sacramento this month. After a weekend summit, the youth participated in a youth-led rally, shared their stories at a legislative hearing of the Select Committee

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  • Working hard, playing hard

    Last month CDF-CA participated in two excursions to strengthen the movements for boys and men of color, and women and girls of color.

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  • Beat the Odds Orientation Day

    On Thursday, June 23 we held our June orientation to welcome the CDF Beat the Odds® class of 2018.

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  • Spotlight: Korla Collins

    “In Tennessee, we saw this documentary about the children’s march and I wondered why I had never seen or heard of it,” said Korla, who also has BA in Africana Studies.

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