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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!
Daily Archives: January 9, 2014
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
Posted in Criminalizing Youth, Harsh Disciplinary Policies, School Pushout, School to Prison Pipeline, School-based arrests, Zero Tolerance
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