Guadalupe Ramirez

“The report stated that “Systemwide P&T [Promotion and Tenure] has been concerned about low level discriminatory actions that occur over a long period of time—things such as undervaluation, microaggression, and marginalization—that never as a single instance reach the threshold for filing a formal grievance”
― Adrienne D. Dixon, Condition or Process? Researching Race in Education

“PIC constitutes a geographic and economic solution to socioeconomic problems while maintaining the state’s commitment to white supremacy.”
― Erica R. Meiners, Right to Be Hostile: Schools, Prisons, and the Making of Public Enemies

“language and literacy education is a political act and that equitable teaching means educating youth about the working of anti-Blackness while shedding light on what Blackness is, its heritage, language, beauty as critical components in disrupting the school-to-prison nexus.”
― Lamar L. Johnson, Critical Race English Education: New Visions, New Possibilities

“I realized I could not serve two masters. I could not serve the children and the system. The system was not about helping children; it was about helping the system. If you are a part of the system, by default, you are helping to maintain the system.”
― Bettina L. Love, Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal