Ernesto's+Project+Hopping+Plan

__**Project Hopping**__

-Role as a guest speaker & the systems I was exposed to -Looking at alternative democratic school models w/in and outside of the US -possible interviews with IDEC participants -La Educacion Prohibida documentary -analysis of flaws in current education system || 1) Why is it important to develop an education system that is accountable for every youth that it serves? 2) Why is a new education model needed, and why is reform flawed in the long-run with respect to sustainable development? || Education in the US is flawed to say the least. Reforms are always implemented with only repercussions and setbacks coming out from such reform, and those who are affected are the ones that are in the classroom- the youth. A school-to-prison pipeline is prevalent in many of the communities where the public education system has failed it- primarily low-income, inner city communities, which are the largest benefactors of public education- and ill-prepares the youth, with a high percentage of them going to prison and/or not being contributing members of society, failing to further prepare and empower the communities from which they come from. || Very prepared to say the least. It has been an issue that has been dear to me since high school, and an issue which I have been working on for years, having progressed extensively in the past couple of years. I have worked with school districts in LA County to help understand the flaws found within their school districts that contribute to the drop-out rate and poor academic performances. I have helped pass resolutions within LA County that have allowed them to bring about solutions to address poor academic performances through health. || I am a product of inner city, substandard education, and have seen/faced these disparities from firsthand experiences. I have been very critical of the education system that is in place today, and firmly believe that it no longer is effective for the needs and demands of today. || Education Policy, Sociology of Education, Political Economics, Consulting || US Department of Education grants (http://www.ed.gov/fund/grants-apply.html)
 * __**Topical Area**__ || __**Data Sets**__ || __**Social Theoretical Questions**__ || __**Why Now?**__ || __**How Prepared?**__ || __**Bias?**__ || __**Fields of Work**__ || __**Funders**__ ||
 * Development of a democratic K-12 public education system || -IDEC 2013 Conference (transcripts from speakers, conversations that I had with attendees and other speakers)

California Dept. of Education grants ( http://www.cde.ca.gov/fg/fo/af/) || -Data gathered from work w/LACEF -Interviews w/stakeholders & orgs that are working on some of the identified issues w/in LA (and experience from working w/these orgs) -Look at other publications done by such entities identified -Visiting the areas that are affected by institutionalized injustices -Speaking w/members of the community who reside in these areas -look @ the systems & governing bodies in greater detail || 1) How does an intersectional approach to these societal disparities help provide new methods of approach that have not been explored? 2) Would such an approach help further understand & develop solutions that can serve as best practice models for development? || We have to have resolved these issues yesterday. The inequalities that are prevalent throughout the many systems that make up our society are growing & those at the bottom of the spectra are unaccounted for when it comes to really solving these issues. || Determined and very prepared. Many of the "solutions" devised to address these issues only provide for one angle of approach, as I have seen through the extensive research on these systems implemented to "address" the solution. With the extensive trainings and workshops that I have attended over the years, as well as through the courses and experiences that I have acquired in internships and working with the affected communities have provided me to further investigate new avenues of policy development that look at the intersectionality of these issues. || I have been affected by the inequalities, having being born and raised in Compton. I am very critical of systems that are implemented and really analyze them to identify the flaws as well as start investigating those individuals that want to "come and help out these communities" without properly identifying the local expertise, which is where the flaws usually begin to appear. || Public Policy, Political Economics, Sociology (Education, Environmental, and Health/Medicine), Ethnography? || CA Environmental Protection Agency (http://www.calepa.ca.gov/envjustice/funding/)
 * Environment, Education, and Public Health in the Hood: An Intersectional Root Cause Analysis of Social Disparities in Inner City LA || -Data gathered w/in The Asthma Files & The Fracking Files research conducted over the past year

National Institutes of Health ( http://grants.nih.gov/grants/oer.htm)

The California Endowment ( http://www.calendow.org/grants/index.html) ||