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All posts tagged "school to prison pipeline"
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3.5KGuest Opinion EssayBlack Girls Pay the Price When Police Enter Schools
Sen. Marco Rubio sent a letter to Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos and Attorney General Jeff Sessions this week wrongly blaming the...
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3.6KGuest Opinion EssayWe Must Stop the Rampant Criminalization of Youth with Disabilities
Minority youth are more likely to become incarcerated than white youth. This fact is so prevalent that even people outside the juvenile...
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1.6KNewsRestorative Justice for High School Artist Who Felt Betrayed and Lashed Out
Humans of Restorative Justice stories highlight the individuals working to build and restore strong relationships in their communities. They are written and...
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1.8KFrom the BureausThis Pro-justice Reform Candidate in Brooklyn, NY, Started Activism at Age 12
Twenty-three years ago, New York City Council candidate Anthony Beckford faced long odds when he spoke out...
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2.8KNewsArts Seen As Crucial to Healing Youth, Changing the Juvenile Justice System
For Jordan, growing up in Jamaica, Queens in New York City left much to be desired. One of the few places he...
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Be Her Resource: A Toolkit About School Resource Officers and Girls of Color
This new report from the Georgetown Law Center on Poverty and Inequality takes a look at how girls of color are consistently...
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1.6KNewsUntrained Police Officers in Schools Focus on Girls of Color, Report Says
Black girls are nearly four times more likely to be arrested at school than their white counterparts and Latina girls are almost...
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Guest Opinion Essay
School-to-Prison Pipeline Can Be Dismantled Using Alternative Discipline Strategies
The school-to-prison pipeline refers to the streamlining of at-risk students from schools to incarceration or related correctional-type facilities that results from punitive...
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2.5KNewsMan Still Fighting 40-year Sentence for Nonlethal Crime He Committed As 14-year-old
What was about to happen on Feb. 4, 1999, would drastically accelerate the trajectory of Christopher Thomas’ life, which had been spiraling...
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1.1KNewsAs California Concert Tour Ends, Local Work on SchoolsNotPrisons Continues
SchoolsNotPrisons, an 11-stop music and arts tour focused on both increasing spending for education and breaking the school-to-prison pipeline in California, wraps...
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1.2KGuest Opinion EssayStrategies, Tools for Educators to Dismantle School-to-Prison Pipeline
Many educators view a new school year as an opportunity for improvement, a fresh start and a chance to reset, especially with...
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Educational Exclusion: Drop Out, Push Out, and the School-to-Prison Pipeline
The Gay, Lesbian, & Straight Education Network (GLSEN) examines the ways in which school systems disproportionately discipline LGBTQ youth while also failing...
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1.4KNewsAdvocates Cheer Probe of Racial Bias in Mississippi School Discipline
A federal investigation will examine whether discriminatory school disciplinary policies are disproportionately affecting black students in DeSoto County, Mississippi.
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1.4KGuest Opinion EssayABA Task Force Wants to Help Disrupt School-to-Prison Pipeline
The school-to-prison pipeline is one of our nation’s most pressing challenges, that all of us must help reverse. Not only do these...
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1.5KGuest Opinion EssayWhen a clock is only a clock: Dismantling the school-to-prison pipeline
Fourteen-year-old Ahmed Mohamed captured the attention of the public in September when he was arrested during his first weeks at MacArthur High...
