This year marks the 5th year Pilipino Youth Coalition—San Mateo County (PYC-SMC) has been in existence. Next Wednesday, March 24th, they’ll be celebrating and would love as many local youth as possible to join them. As the Liwanag Kultural Center‘s first program, PYC-SMC has been providing local youth with a positive, youth-friendly gathering space outside [...]

Yesterday we announced our postcard campaign to remind our state reps that Daly City and Northern San Mateo County are aware that our schools that currently $1.5 million under-funded. In less than one day—we haven’t even begun distributing the cards—Kalayaan School for Equity received an email response from Senator Yee’s office reminding us of his work to support our schools. In addition to a personal message from his Chief of Staff, the office also sent us the press release copied below. [ MORE ]

KSE has put some funds into producing these postcards to send our representatives the clear message that Daly City & Northern San Mateo County are getting organized around the budget cuts that continue to cripple our schools…schools that are already under-funded and therefore ill-equipped to truly serve the educational needs of our communities. [ MORE ]

Once again, it looks like the folks over at our local community college—ASTEP, Hermanos Program, Kababayan Program, and PUENTE—have put together another amazing conference to continue to merge the realms of higher education and hip-hop culture. [ MORE ]

In support of the great work that’s happening California-wide in defense of Public Education, the Kalayaan School for Equity would like to put some focus on what’s happening in our local schools. Below is some quick info to get you up to speed on Daly City, one of San Francisco’s most underrated neighboring cities, and its currently under-funded public schools. [ MORE ]

To support the “March 4: Day to Defend Public Education”, KSE put together a special Keynote/PowerPoint Presentation about the short- and long-term effects the newest round of education budget cuts will have on Northern San Mateo County schools. [ MORE ]