Timeline

United Parents and Students met with Coucilmember Buscaino at Ánimo College Prep Academy. Parents led the meeting and made specific requests related to the platform of safe passages, clean streets, more job opportunities and raising the wage. Eighty parents attended, and the Councilmember committed to seeking out additional funding for safe passages and to returning…

1850 Parents, students and school site staff joined together with community leaders to push for cleaner and safer streets, more job opportunities for civic engagement at the United Parents Assembly. Each school delegation also discussed the issues specific to their communities. WATCH NOW.

300 Parent Leaders from Ánimo Ralph Bunche Charter High School and Ánimo Jefferson Charter Middle School worked with Councilmember Jan Perry, Councilmember Curren Price and the Department of Transportation to secure a new DASH bus stop closer to the school sites to increase student safety.

200 Parent Leaders at Alain LeRoy Locke College Prep Academy convened at a Public Safety Meeting with Councilmember Parks and LAPD Southeast Captain Tingirides to to target specific crime zones. WATCH NOW.

20 parent leaders gathered at the first Community Organizing Institute training session.

Since its formation in 2011, United Parents and Students has worked to become a force for positive change in the lives of Green Dot students and the larger school community. United Parents and Students addresses factors outside school boundaries that not only pose barriers to learning, but also inhibit local quality of life as a…