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GUESTS: Naomi Haywood, Core Parent Leader with CADRE, and member of CADRE’s Dignity and Respect Taskforce, Maisie Chin, Lead Organizer and Director of CADRE

LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has called the high school drop-out problem, “the new civil rights issue of our time.” There is wide disagreement about exactly how many students are leaving schools early, but a Harvard University Study last MArch concluded that only 45% of students were graduating in four years from LA schools. White and Asian students have the lowest drop out rates, while Latino students have the highest. African American students drop out of school at about the average rate. Today we discuss this issue on Uprising with members of a local grassroots organization called CADRE, which stands for “Community Asset Development Re-defining Education.”It is an organization that was forged by low-income parents of color in South Los Angeles in 2001.

For more information, call 213-747-1467, or email info@cadre-la.org.

Sonali’s Subversive Thought for the Day:

Sir William Haley once said, “Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they don’t know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.”