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June 19, 2012
Health Justice campaign organizer Monica Acosta speaks about the recent release of Health Justice Report on KGNU (88.5 FM) Community Radio. English. Listen here>
May 24, 2012
Monica Acosta and Ricardo Martinez speak about the past and future of Padres & Jóvenes Unidos and the upcoming 20th Anniversary Celebration on EDUCA Radio (1090AM). Español. Listen here>
May 3, 2012
Colorado Public Radio Headlines - Senate House Committee passes Senate Bill 46, Smarter School Discipline Bill. English. Listen here>
February 8, 2012
College Prep for All campaign organizer Sheila Keller speaks about parent members' work to improve middle schools in DPS on KGNU (88.5 FM) Community Radio. English. Listen here>
December 16, 2011
A Colorado Public Radio special on Padres & Jóvenes Unidos' campaign to End the School-to-Jail Track, featuring interviews with student-leader Daneka Maestas, youth organizer Lalo Montoya. The segment details Padres & Jovenes Unidos' accountability campaign and its recent grading of DPS' implementation of the 2008 discipline policy. Listen here>
August 31, 2011
Padres & Jóvenes Unidos speaks in-depth with Colorado Public Radio on Colorado Matters about the presence of law enforcement on school campuses, the widespread use of zero-tolerance discipline policies, and the need for statewide reform and policy creation around school discipline. Listen here>
"Over the last ten years there have been close to over 100,000 referrals to law enforcement that have been initiated in schools. That's a sizeable number. Just in the '08-'09 year there were close to 10,000. When we looked more closely at that data we saw that only 6% of those referrals were for the mos serious threats to school safety - we're talking about weapons and hard drugs. 60% of those had to do with a very subjective category: defiant behavior or minor misbehavior."
-Marco Nunez, Padres & Jóvenes Unidos
December 14, 2011
Jovenes Unidos student-leader Brandon Garcia and Lalo Montoya, youth organizer, speak with Christian Martinez of KGNU (88.5 FM) Community Radio about the upcoming accountability meeting with DPS and Superintendent Tom Boasberg. English. Listen here>
"[The 2008 DPS Discipline Policy] is one of the most progressive discipline policies in the country. This is a three-year accountability report looking at how DPS (Denver Public Schools) has done...and how we as a community can hold our Denver Public Schools officials accountable to fully implement this discipline policy that is designed to keep kids in school and learning and out of the School-to-Jail Track."
-Lalo Montoya, Padres & Jóvenes Unidos
