Youth, Family, & Schools
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New Report “Suspended Progress 2024”
We wanted to share our most recent report, Suspended Progress 2024, analyzing new data that illuminates unsettling trends in suspensions and alternative… Read More
The General Assembly Begins!
Today marks the start of the 2024 Virginia General Assembly Session, and we are excited for the chance to once again advocate alongside community partners,… Read More
Hank Bostwick
Hank has been advocating for kids and youth facing juvenile justice and education access issues since he started practicing law in 2003. In 2008, after… Read More
It’s back-to-school season
It’s back-to-school season, and we are excited to join students, families, and educators across the Commonwealth in celebrating the excitement of the start of a… Read More
Electric Utility Access For Serious Medical Conditions
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS: PROTECTING ELECTRIC UTILITY ACCESS FOR THOSE WITH SERIOUS MEDICAL CONDITIONS Customers who have a serious medical need for any utility (such as needing electricity for a ventilator),… Read More
Dismantling the school-to-prison-pipeline
Since the founding of our Youth Justice Program in 1998 (then JustChildren), LAJC has fought to end policies that criminalize student behavior on local, state,… Read More
Funding our schools
In 2019, LAJC and partners launched the Fund our Schools Coalition, a diverse, statewide coalition of parents, students, teachers, and organizations who believe that every… Read More
Ending fees for public education
In 2007 we launched an effective public relations, litigation, and media campaign on the issue of unconstitutional school fees that place a burden particularly on… Read More
Know Your Rights: Expulsions
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS: EXPULSIONS Important definitions:1 An expulsion “means any disciplinary action imposed by a school board or a committee thereof, as provided in school board… Read More
School Policing Advocacy Resources
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS: SCHOOL POLICING: ADVOCACY RESOURCES We believe, and evidence has shown, that exclusionary school discipline such as suspension and expulsion is not an… Read More
