Philadelphia Communities Unite for Greater Educational Opportunities for all!

Hundreds of youth and parents are tired of being pushed out of their schools into the state prison system. The Alliance for Educational Justice (AEJ) is hosting a community education summit to bring the youth and parent’s voice’s into the national debate on public education reform. “I am twenty year’s old and ever since kindergarten I was never given a chance to succeed. There are students like me all over the country who have never had what everyone deserves: a good education. I am fighting so that will never to happen to anyone else in my community”, said Raheem Gladney, youth leader at Youth United for Change and member of the Alliance for Educational Justice.

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