Dallas CORE Member, Kevin Guico, was recently featured in Voyage Dallas and he spoke about his work with Dallas CORE.
Catch a snippet here:
What is “success” or “successful” for you?
Our vision is to leverage the power of organized people in diverse communities to create lasting equitable systems in Dallas for all children. The overall goal is to dismantle oppressive systems and co-create with the community fair systems in public education. As our vision is intentionally lofty and idealistic, our more immediate definition of success varies based on our community action. Ultimately, success will look like our community members affecting policy and/or decision making in Dallas public education and moving it towards equity. This could look like better policies that support our undocumented students, policies that mandate cultural responsiveness and trauma informed practices in schools, budgetary changes that call for socio-emotional learning and after school programs, or equitable funding where schools that need the most support get a proportional amount of the budget and staffing. The wonderful thing about community organizing is that our outcomes and success will be defined and completed with our active community members.
and read the full article here.