Our Impact

1996

YT starts as a coalition of five CBOs to combat racial violence in East Bay high schools.

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1997

  • Facilitated conflict mediations at Castlemont, Skyline, and Richmond High Schools

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1998

  • Wins clean bathroom campaign for Richmond High School

  • Organized “One Land One People Conference” to demand for school and community centers

1999

  • Advocate for Student Learning at Berkeley

  • 1st Regional retreat & Leadership Institute

  • Join Schools Not Jails Coalition against Prop 21

  • Won Berkeley Student Learning Center Campaign

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2000

  • Hosts and Joins the Peace & Dignity Journey’s intercontinental Runners

  • Project YES Campaign I launched to convert empty county building into a youth center now known as Youth Uprising

  • Launched School Safety Committee and Youth Center at Skyline

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2001

  • 1st year of Healthy Start One Land One People Youth Center at Fremont High

  • All YT school sites institute Unity Weeks to combat violence and build solidarity in the schools

  • Lead education against Prejudice and hate crimes against SWANAY/Muslim youth at Berkeley High

2002

  • One Land and One People Collaborative is launched in the city of Richmond at Richmond High as a community-based entity

  • Won Ethnic Studies campaign in WCCUSD, creating a 9th grade course requirement now known as the Foundations Course

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2003

  • Launched “Shot in the Corner, Shot in Iraq: Youth Need Better Choices” site-wide teach-ins and participate in peace marches

  • Won YT-leadership class at Kennedy High School

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2004

  • Organize Da Bay Coalition is created

  • March for Education: against AB 1554

  • Became 501(c)(3)

  • Win two-year delay in the implementation of the California High School Exit Exam

2005

  • Student Power Campaign is launched

  • YT launches first Strategic Plan

  • Student Power campaign win a formal redesign of OUSD student leadership curriculum, structure and involvement in decision making

  • Campaign for Quality Education Coalition is created

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2006

  • YT monitors implementation of William’s Settlement agreement to provide youth w/ facilities and resources for a quality education

  • Begin Food Justice Campaign at Castlemont High School

  • Campaign for Quality Education is created -> Lead into LCFF

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2007

  • Meaningful Student Engagement Initiative is launched at OUSD with YT as lead partner

  • Pass OUSD resolution on Healthy Options

  • National Convening for Organizing Education Reform

  • Fremont lead campus Beautification campaign

2008

  • Mobilize 2,000 to Sacramento with our CQE allies

  • Move into YES, load Student Unity Council and OLOP Collaborative

  • Move from Berkeley High to Berkeley Tech Academy

  • Launched Youth Center at Youth Empowerment School

  • Campaign with Skyline - Clean Bathroom

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2009

  • Win resolution that aligns OUSD graduation with A-G college course requirements

  • YT LSO’s vote to make Kids Count primary campaign to increase state funding

  • Mobilize 1,000 students to state capital to protest budget cuts and to pass Assembly Bill 8 (AB 8) and Assembly Concurrent Resolution 54 (ACR 54)

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2013

  • CA Legislators pass LCFF in 2013! Addressing the inequities in the state public education funding system

  • YT engages in lobbying, community education, and actions for the LCFF from 2007-2013

2015

In 2015, Organize Da Bay Coalition - Student organizing groups agree to establish ODB Coalition to bring more student groups together to address the student power issues that emerged from student surveys and align youth organizing efforts across the bay.

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2017

In 2017, All City Council Student Union got the Board of Education to adopt a follow-up resolution to increase Graduation Rates and Strengthen Student Access to A-G Completion Through the Implementation of the Student Equity Credit Recovery and Prevention program. An Alternative Credit Recovery Implementation Committee is formed of staff across OUSD departments to work together to implement. Former LSO, Adriana Villegas, supported the implementation fo Credit Recovery.

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2019

  • Student Voice Campaign on OUSD Budget

  • Oakland Teacher Strike