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Our Turn's Response to Ketanji Brown Jackson's Confirmation

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In a photo captured by Sarahbeth Maney, we see Justice Jackson’s daughter, Leila, looking at her mother with the resilience, the pride, and the joy that young Black women from across the nation exuded toward the television screen. Today, the United States Senate has voted in favor of...

AP News: First but not last: Black girls see themselves in court pick

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The Associated Press tapped Our Turn youth leaders, Sidney Griffin (NC), Tamara Morgan (GA), and Rachel McBride (Our Turn's Youth Leadership Council member in Atlanta, GA), to get their thoughts on this nascent moment in history as they observe Ketanji Brown...

Dear Superintendent Carvalho: Incorporate and Prioritize Student Input

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As a former LAUSD student from the Miguel Contreras School of Social Justice and current freshman studying Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering at Santa Monica College, I’m one of thousands of young people in Los Angeles navigating school during...

Teen Vogue: Students Protest Book Bans Over Content on LGBTQ Issues, Race

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This year, weeks before Holocaust Remembrance Day, the school board in McMinn County, Tennessee, voted to pull from its eighth-grade curriculum Art Spiegelman’s Maus, a graphic novel that chronicles the experience...

Our Turn Partnership with Annie E. Casey Foundation's Atlanta Civic Site Ignites Youth Leaders and Expands Its Reach in the South

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New York, N.Y. (Dec. 20, 2021)—Our Turn is excited to announce its formal partnership with the Annie E. Casey Foundation's Atlanta Civic Site to cultivate youth advocates through a new Youth Leadership Council (YLC). Our Turn is working with the YLC to build its organizing structure...

Youth Organizers, Next Gen Leaders of Tomorrow, Call on the Dept. of Education to Recognize Their Voice Today

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Our Turn, a member of the Youth In Gov Coalition, calls on Secretary Cardona to recognize the Raise Your Hand Student Agenda, a BIPOC-responsive plan to address disparities exacerbated by the COVID-19 Pandemic. 

[New York, NY, March 1,...

Our Turn Featured in the 74: Americans Didn’t Vote for Education in 2020. Students Are Determined to Make Sure They Do Next Time

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The American K-12 school system is at a breaking point, enabled, in many ways, by misguided Trump administration policies. Now, with Congress having confirmed the outcome of the presidential election and the Senate holding a confirmation hearing for a new education secretary, new leadership at the U.S. Department of...

39,000 Denver students attend schools that lack adequate mental health staff, study finds

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At a time when the mental health of students and school staff ranks among the top concerns for Colorado education leaders, about 39,000 Denver students go to public schools where there are not enough nurses, social workers and psychologists to meet their needs.

According to a recent...

The 74 Million: Former Teachers and Ed Advocates to Join Biden’s White House Team

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The Department of Education isn’t the only part of the federal government where former teachers and education advocates will have a role in the Biden administration.

At least half a dozen individuals recently appointed to positions in the White House include those with teaching experience and others who have worked...

Our Turn Releases Statement on the Insurrection that Overtook the United States Capitol

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Our Turn Releases Statement on the Insurrection Led by Domestic Terrorists

New York, N.Y. (Jan. 7, 2021)— Our Turn released the following statement in response to the domestic terror event that overtook the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021.

“Our Turn condemns the violent assault...

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