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We Told the Arizona State Board for Charter Schools That It’s Our Choice. Here’s Hoping They Listened.
On January 16, Demand to Learn allies accompanied me as we delivered over 2,500 petition signatures to the Arizona State Board for Charter Schools and demanded they stand up for families across Arizona. The signatures were gathered after an ACLU of Arizona report, Schools Choosing Students, was released in December that revealed hundreds of public charter schools across the state have enrollment policies that are unlawful or discriminatory.
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Why Can’t I Represent Incarcerated Arizonans if I Boycott Israel?
This piece was originally published by The Arizona Daily Star.
In Arizona, We’ve Kept Our Promise to Fight Trump’s Unconstitutional Policies
Today marks the one-year anniversary of the 2016 presidential election. Prior to President Trump’s arrival to the White House, the ACLU made a promise ─ should Trump act on the unconstitutional policies he proposed on the campaign trail, we would see him in court.
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Demand to Learn Campaign Hosts Policy Summit to Keep Kids in School
A few days ago, parents, student advocates, and educators came together for a policy summit at Balsz Community Center in Phoenix to develop concrete policies that will help alleviate the problem of schools pushing kids out of the classroom with harsh, and often biased, disciplinary practices.
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Note to Arizona Police: Criminal History of Neighborhood Is Not Sufficient to Justify a Frisk
The mere fact that a person is present in a high-crime neighborhood is insufficient to justify a pat-down search of an individual, the Arizona Supreme Court recently ruled.
Demand to Learn Campaign Works to Ensure Equal Access to Education
All students have the right to a public education, and schools should not be able to choose their students.
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