Community Asset Development Re-defining Education (CADRE)
CADRE is a community-based, membership parent organization in South Los Angeles founded in 2001. CADRE is led by African American and Latino parents and caregivers whose children attend local schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). CADRE works for systemic change by supporting South LA parents to be the leaders in stopping the pushout crisis in their area schools.
Its overall mission is to solidify and advance parent leadership in order to ensure that all children are rightfully educated regardless of where they live. It seeks to effect policy change and mobilize political will through new parent participation models that preserve and expand the right to education for all South LA children and youth.
Project
The USHRF supports CADRE's work to monitor the implementation of Los Angeles Unified School District's Positive Behavior Support (PBS) Policy. CADRE will conduct bi-weekly parent trainings on the new PBS policy, as well as recruit and organize parents into work groups that can assess various PBS policy components.
Parents will be trained to conduct surveys, carry out interviews, and document results on how the PBS policy is being implemented in their childrens' schools. They will also be trained on how to use this data in order to initiate and lead meetings with school administrators and teachers on the implementation process.
CADRE will provide accessible legal services to parents on issues of school displine policy, and will produce a shadow report on PBS implemenation in the Los Angeles Unified School District.
Contact Representative
Los Angeles, CA 90003