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Tribal Members Urge School District to Provide Transparency Around Funding
By Erika Eva Tracy
From Flint to Standing Rock to California’s Salinas Valley, Water is a Human Right
Everyone has a right to safe, clean, affordable drinking water. And the news this week means we’re going to have to shout it from the rooftops. Water is life. Water is a human right.
By Kena Cador, Angélica Salceda
Stopping Abuse of Native-American Schoolchildren
It was a child's simple refusal to give up a bandana belonging to his recently deceased grandfather that led to a landmark settlement regarding discriminatory discipline against Native-American students at the hands of the Bishop Union Elementary School District (BUESD).
Bishop, located in the eastern Sierras, has a population of about 3,400, with approximately 1,500 members of the Paiute Tribe living on a nearby reservation.
Violent Incident
In October 2005, a campus police officer, also known as a school resource officer (SRO), demanded that an eighth-grader hand over the bandana he was wearing, citing the school's dress code.
By ACLU of Northern California
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