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Suspension Stories is a youth-led participatory action research project to understand the school to prison pipeline. This initiative is the result of a collaboration between the Rogers Park Young Women's Action Team (www.rogersparkywat.org) and Project NIA (www.project-nia.org).
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Recent Posts
- Video: “What We Carry On Our Backs: The School To Prison Pipeline”
- “Charter schools’ discipline policy under fire”
- “The the number of serious incidents of misbehavior plummeted 60 percent…”
- Freedom Summer Youth Congress Addressing Youth Criminalization & More This Summer
- Kiera Wilmot, the Honor Student Who Was Arrested For a Botched Science Experiment, Tells Her Story
- JJIE: “Life after Juvenile Detention”
- “Are School Closings the ‘New Jim Crow’? Activists File Civil Rights Complaints.”
- Communities Around The Country Gear Up For National Week of Action Against Incarcerating Youth!
Monthly Archives: January 2014
GantDaily: FL Juvenile Detention Center’s Graveyard Yields 55 Bodies
Among the many harms of criminalizing and pushing out youth from school for “insubordination” and other non-violent offenses, is the detention centers they can be sent to. The harsh and brutal legacy of AGDSB carries on to present … Continue reading
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The Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network Addresses DOJ/DOE School Discipline Guidance Package
Report from Washington Blade: The Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network, a national group that advocates for LGBT youth in the nation’s schools, says LGBT students and youth of color have been disproportionately impacted by overly harsh school disciplinary practices. … Continue reading
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7 Teens Arrested for Throwing Water Balloons
Al Jazeera’s America Tonight introduced a special series, “Getting Schooled“, which explores the various obstacles communities face in securing a good education for youth. Sarah Hoye reports on the developments of a story from last May, stemming from a harmless water balloon fight … Continue reading
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NPR: Ease Up On ‘No Tolerance’ Policies, U.S. Agencies Tell Schools
From the NPR Blog: Saying that “zero tolerance” discipline policies at U.S. schools are unfairly applied “all too often,” Secretary of Education Arne Duncan is urging officials to rethink that approach. The Obama administration issued voluntary guidelines today that call for more … Continue reading
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NYT Editorial: Zero Tolerance, Reconsidered
Schools across the country are rethinking “zero tolerance” discipline policies under which children have been suspended, even arrested, for minor offenses like cursing, getting into shoving matches and other garden-variety misbehavior that in years past would have been resolved with … Continue reading
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