Research Collaborative
LET'S BUILD TOGETHER
oUR wORK:
FedSDC’s Research Collaborative Working Group’s purpose is to provide research and data to improve advocacy, litigation, and educational efforts aimed at eliminating exclusionary discipline policies, practices and tactics. We do this through the working groups' vast network of experts, researchers, advocates and activists focused on addressing educational systemic inequities and abolishing racism and racial disproportionality.
We seek to develop and provide research and data to communities who may not have the capacity, coalitions who need additional capacity to delve deeper into a subject, and to students, youth and children who are curious and want to hold educational and political systems accountable. We want to ensure that our communities have a seat at local, state, and federal policy tables and are engaged in decision making at those tables. And provide clear data and research that supports community demands and protects the ability for Black students, youth, and children to identify, respond to, and change the racial inequalities and inequities they see in their day-to-day lives.
pROCESSES:
The Research Collab provides resources, information, or data for FedSDC members, communities, campaigns, projects, students, youth, and children based on decision making through a participatory process during working group meetings. All are invited to make requests/inquiries, the working group will make decisions on which requests are taken up based on five specific categories of criteria:
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Supports police free schools and the elimination of policies that contribute to racial discrimnation and disparities.
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Resources and sustains culturally affirming, holistically safe school communities criminal legal system interventions or law enforcement.
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Addresses racial and/or economic inequities with a clear equity framework, explicit to the unique needs of Black students, youth, and children, and their communities.
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Community need and affects or influences local policy.
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Creates action that builds power & movement strategies.
Let’s Research
So dust off your slide rule, your pocket protectors, and your horn-rimmed glasses; and bring it!
