Lori Bezahler is president of the Edward W Hazen Foundation, dedicated to supporting organizing and leadership of young people and communities of color in dismantling structural inequity based on race and class. The Foundation's programs focus primarily on educational equity, but are also directed at juvenile justice, immigration reform, gender justice, and other public policy concerns critical to young people.
Progressives supported Prop 30 to send more money to schools but now the funds are headed to prisons. How could this happen—and can it be stopped?
It's the wrong response to incidents like Newtown.


