We stand in solidarity with the Black community and all individuals in the fight against systemic racism, and in support of justice and reform.  

LAEF's vision is that all LASD students receive an exceptional education preparing them to achieve their highest potential. To realize this vision, LAEF raises funds to ensure that every student in our LASD community receives an excellent education. As a partner to the Los Altos School District, we echo the commitment of District leaders to teach our students to communicate their own feelings of injustice, understand the injustices people of color face every day, rise against intolerance in defense of others and work together to build a more just world. 

Furthermore, LAEF commits to being an ally and advocate in racial justice efforts, both internally as a nonprofit organization and externally as a community member and public education partner. Black Lives Matter and we stand in support of ensuring that every child in every community deserves an equitable education. 

We encourage everyone to actively educate yourself alongside us on anti-racism and to use your privilege (whatever that privilege may be) to serve and advocate on behalf of others. 

LAEF takes its commitment to each child in our district seriously. We are all in this together.

Sincerely, 
The LAEF Board and Staff

If you're interested in additional resources, here are some listed below to get you started:

Reading:

• How To Be an Antiracist, Ibram X Kendi
• The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander
• White Fragility, Robin Diangelo
• Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson
• The 1619 project, an ongoing initiative from The New York Times Magazine that began in August 2019, the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery. 

Listening:

• NPR Podcast: Why All Parents Should Talk with their Kids about Social Identity
• Come Through With Rebecca Carroll - This podcast promises "essential conversations" about race in America (NYT).

Watching:

• 13th, a documentary about race, justice, and mass incarceration, directed by Ava DuVernay
• When They See Us, a miniseries (also by DuVernay) about the 1989 Central Park Jogger case