2022 Annual Report
THE FIGHT FOR EDUCATION DEBT RELIEF CONTINUES
Education Debt Relief Update
Ohio Voter Guide (2022)
RECENT MURDER OF JAYLAND WALKER IN AKRON
Spring 2022 Update
2021 Annual Report
Budget Wins Update
The state budget has been approved and, while there is still work that needs to be done, there were some gains that were made that make the future look quite promising. One of the biggest wins is the Fair School Funding plan. We know that children represent our future, but for decades, Ohio’s budget has failed to invest in educating our kids…
Spring 2021 Update
Heading into 2021, young people have continued to see and face plenty of issues that plague our campuses and communities. We have continued strong in our mission of #BuildingPower and #Organizing, fulfilling a vision of young people centered as independent leaders of meaningful and transformative change…
2020 Annual Report
Between a critical election, an ongoing pandemic, an adjustment to remote learning, and the struggles of trying to afford an education while paying off debt and making ends meet, young people in Ohio had an overwhelming and difficult year in 2020. Nonetheless, even in these dire and unfamiliar circumstances, young people have continued to find ways to organize and fight for the issues that matter most to us. For the OSA team, this has entailed getting out the vote, showing up for racial justice, fighting for criminal justice reform, and more. Read all about our different work, wins, and reflections for the past year in our yearly report…
Fall 2020 Update
OSA Cleveland State Picks up Wins to Make CSU More Accessible to Folks with Criminal Records
When we convened for the fall semester in 2019, OSA leaders Kevin Ballou, Donnell Walker and Jenna Thomas began building our campus chapter of OSA―a team that now includes 15 core team members and many supporters. Our goal was, and continues to be, to make Cleveland State more accessible to people with criminal records. Throughout the past year, Cleveland State's OSA chapter set themselves to the task of organizing a powerful Ban the Box campaign. For context, "Ban the Box" campaigns on campuses across the country advocate for the removal of criminal record disclosures from admissions applications―and that's what the CSU OSA chapter set out to do…
Let them Go! Virtual Show
The Coalition to Stop the Inhumanity at the Cuyahoga County Jail led by member organization OSA held the “Let them Go!” fundraiser on Friday, May 22nd at 7 pm featuring a variety of talented local musicians including Kyle Kidd & Pete Saudek, Mikey Silas, and Teezy From The Clair as well as speakers David Okpara and Azzurra Crispino, both of whom have been personally impacted by the injustice system…
Higher Education in Ohio: Ambitious Goals Need Better Funding
"Invest in Ed, Divest from Prisons" Report
INTRODUCING . . .
THE “INVEST IN ED, DIVEST FROM PRISONS” REPORT (CLICK HERE)
AND THE ED4ALL CONVENING (OCTOBER 19TH – 20TH 2019)
“Invest in Ed, Divest from Prisons: How shrinking incarceration can save higher education” is not just a list of statistics showing how our education system and our prison system leave black, brown, and poor students behind; it’s a document with stories from people seeing the system break day by day; it’s also our first step toward a concrete vision of how we can transform Ohio’s public institutions. In it you will find specific ways we can move funds into higher education away from mass incarceration…
Broke Student Survey
C-Space Happy Hour: Higher Education
OSA has built a team of young people to host events that connect liberation and political work with cultural work and creativity.
The popular “C-Space” return by hosting an issue-specific “Creative Town Hall” on higher education, where young people shared poetry and music related to their experiences in school and their dreams for an education system that gives them joy, purpose, and community…