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title: "Projects"
description: "Collaborative work on youth participation and democratic education."
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> Page index: https://mcasar.com/llms.txt

# Projects

Miguel works with collaborators on youth participation and public school governance. These reports document two of those collaborations.

## Youth voice and participation

**Nothing About Us Without Us** examines youth voice, power and participation in East Side Union High School District. The case study looks at the district’s partnership with Californians for Justice and what supports student participation.

[Read the UCLA case study](https://transformschools.ucla.edu/research/nothing-about-us-without-us-youth-voice-power-and-participation/)

## School boards and democratic governance

**Local Control in a Time of Change** examines the work of California school board members, their challenges and the support they need. Miguel is a coauthor of the May 2026 report published by Getting Down to Facts.

[Read the school board report](https://gettingdowntofacts.com/reports/local-control-time-change-work-california-school-board-members)

## Further research projects

The [University of Alabama faculty profile](https://education.ua.edu/directory/miguel-casar-rodriguez/) lists these research and grant projects:

- School Boards Under Siege: Toward a Possibility of Democratic Governance in Divided Times
- Imagining Freedom, Remembering Selves
- Fertile Seeds, Transformative Dreams, and Contexts of (Im)Possibility

To discuss a collaboration or ask about a project, [get in touch](/contact/).

Source: https://mcasar.com/projects/index.mdx