All In For All Students (New)

Aligning with the national SURJ campaign All In for All Students, our local chapter is deeply committed to ensuring that our local schools are welcoming and well-resourced, that they teach accurate history and nourish each student’s well being. 

This page includes links to key articles, documents and policies to assist those wanting to take a deep dive into understanding the issues, local context and advocacy work better. Through this page, SURJ Santa Cruz County wishes to honor and lift up those groups and individuals who have been on the frontlines of these struggles and who continue to lead. We will update this page as we get more information. 

  • Support LGBTQIA2S+ Youth

    Support LGBTQIA2S+ Youth

    Across the country, attacks on the queer community, particularly as they relate to our schools and trans youth, has been growing. At the local level over the past year, there have been threats against queer teachers and youth, and against drag story time events designed to celebrate and model literacy, diversity, inclusion and love. We

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  • Action: Write a Letter to the Editor in Support of Liberated Ethnic Studies in PVUSD

    Action: Write a Letter to the Editor in Support of Liberated Ethnic Studies in PVUSD

    Why is the Santa Cruz Sentinel standing against the PVUSD community’s call to bring back CRE and liberated ethnic studies? On July 20th, the Santa Cruz Sentinel wrote an editorial supporting the cancellation of the ethnic studies contract with the consulting firm, Community Responsive Education (CRE). We are asking our community and supporters to write

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  • Action: Contact Dawn Addis: Oppose AB 2918

    Action: Contact Dawn Addis: Oppose AB 2918

    Update: This bill has been held over for the next year to “to allow for more time to engage in meaningful discussions with a broad array of groups” .

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  • Support Liberated Ethnic Studies

    Support Liberated Ethnic Studies

    Ethnic Studies has a long history based in liberatory movements, emerging from the 1968-1969 student strikes led by the Black Student Union and Third World Liberation Front at SF State and UC Berkeley. Since its introduction in college and K-12 settings, the movement has focused on uplifting the stories, cultures, traditions, and histories of resistance…

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  • PVUSD Board Meeting News (2024-03-29)

    Students also organized for the March 29, 2024 meeting to push for continuing the CRE contract. KSBW covered it in their evening news.

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  • PVUSD Board Meeting News (2024-03-13)

    There was some amazing organizing done by students happening during the March 13, 2024 PVUSD board meeting around ethnic studies.

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