What Is Co-Governance? Communities and Schools Share the Power

Co-governance means community and government sharing decision-making power — not community being consulted, but community co-leading.

In this video, organizers, educators, and youth leaders explain what that looks like on the ground: young people bringing context and lived experience that data can’t provide on its own; communities not just reacting to systems, but redesigning them; and schools building the trust required to genuinely share power with the people they serve.