We Are The Leaders
We Have Been Waiting For
The Alliance for Educational Justice is a national, youth-led movement building youth power to end state violence in schools and transform education into a space of safety, dignity, and liberation. We organize young people to build collective power to change the conditions that shape their lives. That means fighting for what our communities need now, defending against state violence and repression, and building alternatives that allow us to practice the future we are fighting for.
How We Build Power
Defend
We confront state violence to protect our people.
We organize collective defense when young people and communities face criminalization, repression, surveillance, displacement, or attacks on their right to organize.
Transform
We build what we need beyond the state.
We create and practice alternatives rooted in collective care, self-determination, liberatory learning, community safety, and the knowledge that our communities already hold.
Organize
We build power to change institutions.
We organize young people and communities to move decision-makers, win material changes, and shape the policies, budgets, and institutions that affect their lives.
We Build Youth
Organizing Infrastructure
Building this kind of power requires infrastructure. AEJ creates the relationships, skills, political education, alignment, accompaniment, narrative capacity, and resources that allow locally rooted youth organizing to grow and move together.
Our North Star
We fight for schools where youth are free from policing, punishment, and criminalization — and where care, dignity, and collective power define the future of education.
We believe every young person deserves protected rights that affirm their humanity: safety, care, and a voice in shaping the systems that shape their lives.
Our Members
Media
RELEASE: Collective Statement in Response to U.S. v. Skrmetti SCOTUS Ruling
June 18, 2025
Denver Post: DPS to close 7 schools in Denver, cut number of grades at 3 others as K-12 enrollment falls
November 22, 2024
RELEASE: New Report Analyzes Hundreds of School Policing Assaults Across the Country, Finds the 2023-24 School Year Was The Most Number of Students Assaulted By School Policing.
October 1, 2024
Contact Us!
Whether you’re interested in our work or want to collaborate, we are here to talk! Email us at comms@4edjustice.org.
