Current Members

The DSC has a Coordinating Committee that oversees the campaign and member organizations that shape our work and participate in committees and local chapters.The DSC hosts ongoing monthly calls for DSC members to participate in planning and decision-making on our collective work and to share updates about what is happening in your local communities.

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Organizational Members

ARIZONA

Demand2Learn/ACLU of Arizona, Phoenix

CALIFORNIA

A Black Education Network, San Jose

ACLU of Northern California, San Francisco

ACLU of Southern California, Los Angeles

Black Organizing Project, Oakland

Black Skeptics Los Angeles, Los Angeles

Black Students of CA United, Fresno, CA

CADRE, Los Angeles

Canvass for a Cause, San Diego

Children’s Defense Fund, California

Coleman Advocates, San Francisco

Labor/Community Strategy Center, Los Angeles

National Center for Youth Law, Oakland

Public Counsel Law Center, Los Angeles

Restorative Schools Vision Project, Sacramento

RYSE Center, Richmond

San Francisco Youth Commission, San Francisco

Youth Justice Coalition, Los Angeles

Dignity in Schools-CA Chapter

COLORADO

Breaking Our Chains, Denver

Movimiento Poder (FKA Padres & Jovenes Unidos), Denver

School Justice PSD 

CONNECTICUT

Hearing Youth Voices, New London

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Advocates for Justice and Education, Inc

American Civil Liberties Union of the Nation’s Capital

Black Swan Academy

Center for Law and Education

Critical Exposure

Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law

National Women’s Law Center

Restorative DC- School Talk

FLORIDA

Discriminology, Sarasota

Fanm Saj, Inc., Miami

Power U Center for Social Change, Miami

SOUL Sisters Leadership Collective, North Miami

GEORGIA

Deep Center, Savannah

Gwinnett STOPP, Gwinnett County

ILLINOIS

Blocks Together, Chicago

COFI/POWER-PAC, Chicago

Parents Across America, Chicago

Project NIA, Chicago

The Woman of God’s Design Ministry, Chicago

LOUISIANA

Black Man Rising, New Orleans

Community Education Project of New Orleans

Families and Friends of Louisiana’s Incarcerated Children, New Orleans

MARYLAND

Maryland Coalition to Reform School Discipline, Baltimore

MASSACHUSSETS

Boston-area Youth Organizing Project, Boston

Cambridge Youth Council

The EdLaw Project, Boston

Pa’lante Restorative Justice, Holyoke

MICHIGAN

DWH Inspires, Ypsilanti

Student Advocacy Center of Michigan, Detroit, Jackson, Ypsilanti

MINNESOTA

Koinonia Leadership Academy, Cottage Grove

Midwest Center for School Transformation, Brooklyn Park

Minnesota Parent Union

Uplift MN, Saint Paul

MISSISSIPPI

Action Communication and Education Reform, Inc., Duck Hill

Activists with a Purpose Plus, Grenada

Countywide Family Development Center, Laurel

Fannie Lou Hamer Center, Eupora

Legacy Education and Community Empowerment Foundation, Forest

Montgomery Citizens United for Prosperity

MS Youth Technology and Education Corps

Nollie Jenkins Family Center, Lexington

Southern Echo- Jackson, MS

Southern Poverty Law Center- Jackson, MS

Sunflower County Parents and Students, Indianola

Tunica Teens In Action, Tunica County

NEW HAMPSHIRE AND VERMONT

Rights & Democracy, Manchester, NH

NEW JERSEY

Parent Education Organizing Council, Paterson

Paterson Education Fund, Paterson, Paterson

SOMA Black Parents Workshop, Maplewood

Statewide Education Organizing Committee, Trenton/Jersey City

NEW YORK

Center for Community Alternatives, Brooklyn/New York City/Rochester/Syracuse

Children’s Defense Fund – New York, NY

Desis Rising Up and Moving, Queens

Girls for Gender Equity

GLSEN – NYC

Make the Road New York, Brooklyn/Queens

NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, New York

New Settlement Parent Action Committee, Bronx

Partners for Dignity & Rights (formerly NESRI), New York

Sistas and Brothas United, Bronx

Teachers Unite, New York City

Unchained, Syracuse

United Women in Faith

Dignity in Schools – NY Chapter, New York

NORTH CAROLINA

Education Justice Alliance, Wake County

Hannah Ruth Foundation, Carrboro

Parents Organized for Public Education (POPE), Guilford County

Village of Wisdom, Durham

OHIO

Racial Justice NOW!, Dayton

West Dayton Youth Task Force, Dayton

OREGON

Portland Parent Union, Portland

Resolutions Northwest, Portland

PENNSYLVANIA

ACLU of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

Education Rights Network, Pittsburgh

Lehigh Valley Stands Up

School Discipline Advocacy Services, Philadelphia

RHODE ISLAND

Young Voices, Providence

SOUTH CAROLINA

South Carolina Appleseed, Columbia

TENNESSEE

Stand for Children – Tennessee

TEXAS

Excellence and Advancement Foundation, Austin

Lawyers for Good Government

Save the Kids, Houston

Texas Appleseed, Austin

Intercultural Development Research Association

VIRGINIA

1619 Project, Richmond

Advocates for Justice – Henrico Coalition, Sandston

Advocating 4 Kids, Norfolk

Elite Educational Consultants- Chesterfield

I Vote for Me, Henrico

Prom Bring It/Go High Corp, Glen Ellen

Tenants and Workers United, Alexandria

The Virginia Coucil on LGBTQ, Richmond

WASHINGTON

Mom’s Rising, Belleview

WEST VIRGINIA

Our Future West Virginia, Charleston

WISCONSIN

Freedom Inc, Madison

 

Individual Members

Deanna Adams – Chicago, IL

Lisette Burton – Washington, DC

Poebe Celestin – Sacramento, CA

Unika Colbert, Las Vegas, Nevada

Denise Dooley – Chicago, IL

Cora Graves – Jonesboro, GA

Dr. Brianna Kennedy-Lewis – Gainsville, FL

Jason Langberg – Raleigh, NC

Monica Llorente – Chicago, IL

Dan Losen – Boston, MA

Nancy Polin – Oakland, CA

Linda Reid – Paterson, NJ

Adam Shoop – Woodside, NY

Kent Smith – Eau Claire, WI

Daniel Symonds – Philadelphia, PA

Mattie Wilson Stoddard, Ridgeland, MS

Endorsers

Advancement Project – www.advancementproject.org

Advocates for Children of New York City – www.advocatesforchildren.org

American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts – www.aclum.org

California for a World Beyond War – www.worldbeyondwar.org/california/

Education Law Center – www.edlawcenter.org

Angel Diaz, IL

Candace Moore, IL

Julie A. Worley, TN