The growing frustration of students came to a head on March 1, 1968, when more than 200 students walked out of Wilson High School in East LA. The walkout was motivated by the principal of Wilson canceling a play students wrote about social issues Chicano youth were facing.
This spontaneous act ignited students across East LA to organize similar, though more structured, protests that would come to be known as the Chicano Blowouts.
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High school senior, Hana Terpstra, thinks through the importance of arts education in this creative essay.
High school junior, Naavya Jain, shines light on the pressure to perform perfection in school and beyond in this moving poem.
In this current moment, LGBTQ students are facing increasingly escalating legal, social, and even physical attacks from extreme political actors. We, as education advocates, must use our voices and platforms to uplift and center the voices and stories of LGBTQ students and young people. In 2022, we sat down with 2022 Stand for Children Oregon Beat the Odds Scholarship winner and then high school senior Teryn to discuss what pride means to them. We want to revisit their story as we continue to work to support the safety and inclusion of every student.
