Lift us up, don't push us out!: voices from the front lines of the educational justice movement

Preface / Mark R. Warren and David Goodman

Introduction : building an educational justice movement / Mark R. Warren

"I can't make a teacher love my son" : a black parent's journey to racial justice organizing / Zakiya Sankara-Jabar

#SouthLAParentLove : redefining parent participation in South Los Angeles schools / Maisie Chin

Speaking up and walking out : Boston students fight for educational justice / Carlos Rojas and Glorya Wornum

Fighting for gender justice : girls of color assert their voices / Kate McDonough and Christina Powell

The freedom to learn : dismantling the school-to-prison pipeline in the Southwest / Pam Martinez

#FightForDyett : fighting back against school closings and the journey for justice / Jitu Brown

There is no national without the local : grounding the school discipline movement in the Mississippi Delta / Joyce Parker

The school is the heart of the community : building community schools across New York City / Natasha Capers

Fighting for teachers, children and their parents : building a social justice teachers union / Brandon Johnson

#EndWarOnYouth : building a youth movement for black lives and educational justice / Jonathan Stith

Teachers unite! : organizing school communities for transformative justice / Sally Lee and Elana "E. M." Eisen-Markowitz

Can schools nurture the souls of black and brown children? : combating the school-to-prison pipeline in early childhood education / Roberta Udoh

System change : following an inside-outside strategy as a school board member / Mónica García

Walking into the community : community partnerships as a catalyst for institutional change in higher education / Maureen D. Gillette

#schoolismyhustle : activist scholars and a youth movement to transform education / Vajra Watson

Janitors are parents too! : promoting parent advocacy in the labor movement / Aida Cardenas and Janna Shadduck-Hernández

The same struggle : immigrant rights and educational justice / José Calderón

Organizing intersectionally : trans and queer youth fighting for racial and gender justice / Geoffrey Winder

Conclusion : educational justice as catalyst for a new social movement / Mark R. Warren.