Guest Blogger
Parent/Grandparent
San Diego, California
Christina Laster is the founder of the Inland Empire and San Diego Parent Unions. She is a former statewide community organizer with the California Policy Center, and a Black parent and grandparent in Southern California. Currently, she is an executive committee member of the California Hawaii NAACP, the Education chairwoman and Youth Council advisor of Southwest Riverside County NAACP.
While watching the Public Education Forum 2020 on Saturday, one phrase caught my attention: Democratic “hopefuls,” referring to the presidential…
For educators, equity has become an industry. They are offered tons of data, research and training on how to build…
I was recently the subject of a hit piece in the Huffington Post, which tried to connect me to the…
As an advocate for equity in public education, I joined the NAACP, and eventually became the education chair for Southwest…
This Wednesday, the California Senate’s Education Committee will hold a public hearing on a bill that would make local school…
Access to public education is now a fundamental right. All 50 states mandate public education in their state constitutions. Once states made public education compulsory,…
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted, well, everything, but at times I find that I have more time to communicate, virtually if necessary, with family and…
As the calendar turns to April, I typically end up asking myself the same question every school year—“will they remember?” In my case, that question…
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