VAAP endorses Education Justice Coalition’s Model Safe Schools Policy

VAAP joins partner organizations in strongly endorsing the Model Policy to Ensure School Safety and Resources for Families Impacted by Immigration Enforcement by organized by the Education Justice Coalition of Vermont (www.edjcoalitionvt.org) with input from several allied organizations including VAAP. The Education Coalition of Vermont promotes justice for all students in the Vermont education system through organizing, building community power, and developing and promoting ethnic studies and social justice curriculum and pedagogy. Visit their website and scroll down to sign up for their newsletter; join them at upcoming educational events; or ask them to promote your event using this form; Are you an educator of color? Join the Vermont Educators of Color Association. Review the Model Policy here and in .PDF here. Access a working draft guide to organizing your local school district to adopt the policy here. 

Want to sign on to the Model Policy and help ensure its adoption across Vermont school districts? Contact the Education Justice Coalition of Vermont! Learn more about local sanctuary movements here and in our community-facing resource library here.