Virtual LEGISLATIVE OPEN HOUSE

How a Bill Becomes Law in California

California schools have consistently failed Black students and such failures can have lifelong impacts and consequences.
- Achievement Gap
- Disproportionate Discipline
- School to Prison Pipeline
- Underfunded schools

The pandemic has created unprecedented disruption of a dysfunctional system and transferred its inequities to Zoom learning.
Some parents are demanding schools reopen and that schools return to “normal” but normal wasn’t working for most Black children. What do kids need in order to thrive in school and be protected from the hostile work environments that exist on school sites?
The state is ultimately responsible for educating children in California, but who is holding the state (Legislature, Governor, etc.) accountable?
In order to hold the state accountable for how Black children are served by and treated within the educational system, it’s important to learn how laws are made, know who makes them, and how to be involved in the process of making said laws.

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