Radical Advocates for Cross-Cultural Education

Radical Advocates for Cross-Cultural Education Radical Advocates for Cross-Cultural Education-R.A.C.C.E. In addition to identifying the source of educational dilemmas, we will identify solutions.

Our mission is to build and use power through community organizing, leadership development, and advocacy campaigns with Waterbury students and youth to fight for racial equity and social justice in our schools and community. Our mission is to challenge systems of oppression by advocating for culturally competent educational practices. Therefore, we believe the most effective way to triumph over sy

stemic forms of oppression is to have an educational system that serves the historically underserved and underrepresented. This can only be accomplished if we advocate for an educational system that is positioned to provide culturally competent school professionals and curriculum, human services, and disciplinary policies, which combat: generational poverty, achievement gaps, implicit and explicit biases towards race, ethnicity and gender. Strategically we will work with three groups: parents and students, school professionals, and legislators. We will work independently to highlight research on current educational dilemmas that increase the achievement gap, speed up the school to prison pipeline, and worsen the economic welfare of families in our community. Our goal is to be a community partner that closes the conceptual gaps between problems and solutions. Therefore, we will participate in and host community events that heighten awareness of the educational dilemmas in our community. Finally, as advocates, we will target laws and policies, policy makers, and legislators that influence the educational experience. Our vision requires:

1. An increased community response to educational dilemmas
2. An increased willingness by school professionals to examine implicit and explicit biases through carefully planned and executed professional development
3. Increased support by organized labor for minority teacher recruitment
4. Non-partisan political support for mandates that are student centric

In Waterbury and more intensely around our schools and parks air quality is wildy variable and at times dangerous...
04/24/2026

In Waterbury and more intensely around our schools and parks air quality is wildy variable and at times dangerous...

While air quality has improved significantly from a few decades ago, there is still a long way to go.

03/28/2026
This is a statewide dilemma, but it has grown to be a hyper-local one of generational hardship and poverty. These outcom...
03/15/2026

This is a statewide dilemma, but it has grown to be a hyper-local one of generational hardship and poverty. These outcomes are geographically and racially predictable.

The cost of locking up students is much higher than educating them, and the long-term benefits of investing in education and support programs are robust.

❗️❗️❗️Both the Board and the Superintendent are responsible for violating state law and being willfully non-compliant. ...
03/12/2026

❗️❗️❗️Both the Board and the Superintendent are responsible for violating state law and being willfully non-compliant. This case is just one example. In the near future we will host a series of free legal clinics with experts so that families can fight for their rights.

Our work has been hyper-focused on changing school policies and state law so that students have all of their rights acknowledged by the Waterbury Public Schools. To some degree we have been successful. Over the last two school years we have seen the schools regress and we are at a tipping point again as the courts seize control over individual cases. We know this is a systemic issue. Families and students deserve to have all of their rights to Procedural Due Process as well as Substantive Due Process.

03/06/2026
🚨 CONNECTICUT — THIS IS OUR MOMENT.On March 4, lawmakers will decide whether students can continue being pushed out of c...
02/28/2026

🚨 CONNECTICUT — THIS IS OUR MOMENT.

On March 4, lawmakers will decide whether students can continue being pushed out of classrooms for nonviolent behavior.

Black and Brown students deserve to stay in school — not be excluded.

We’re organizing to END out-of-school suspensions for nonviolent behavior. We need YOU.

🗓 Public Hearing: March 4 | 11AM | Hartford + Zoom
📝 Testify in person, virtually, or submit written testimony
🎓 Public Hearing Workshop: March 2 | 5:30PM (Virtual)
🚗 Transportation available upon request

Your voice can help change state law.

Register today. Use QR Code on Image

02/28/2026
02/27/2026

Free lunch and conversation on clean buses and air quality in schools (March 4)
Join Alex Rodriquez next Wednesday, March 4, Robert Goodrich and Alex will host an Air & Transportation Subcommittee meeting of the CT Equity and Environmental Justice Advisory Council at Make the Road CT’s Bridgeport office at 87 Washington Ave.

Following a generous luncheon provided by Radical Advocates for Cross-Cultural Education, we will hear presentation from CT Dept of Transportation on their electric bus program, a presentation on air quality and schools/buildings, and a subcommittee debrief.

We welcome the participation of new clean air advocates to get involved with our subcommittee!

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PO Box 1309
Waterbury, CT
06721

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+12035977456

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