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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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- 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!
Author Archives: Suspensionstories
Video: “What We Carry On Our Backs: The School To Prison Pipeline”
“Members of the Philadelphia Student Union collaborated with film-makers Aidan Un, Lendl Tellington, and Sarah Milinski to create videos on issues that are relevant to the lives of young people in Philadelphia.” Original link.
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“Charter schools’ discipline policy under fire”
The Advocate: “Wesley Nakamura is teaching a sophomore algebra class at Carver Collegiate Academy in New Orleans East. A student near the front of the room raises his hand and asks to go to the restroom. Things go badly from … Continue reading
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“The the number of serious incidents of misbehavior plummeted 60 percent…”
The American Prospect: “Before 2006, when Debora Borges-Carrera became the principal at Kensington Creative & Performing Arts High School (KCAPA) in north Philadelphia, the school was the scene of pandemonium. Not a day seemed to go by without a fight … Continue reading
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Freedom Summer Youth Congress Addressing Youth Criminalization & More This Summer
Jackson Free Press: Freedom Summer to Empower Youth “Albert Sykes grew up in west Jackson the next block over from the street where Medgar and Myrlie Evers lived, but says he never had a real connection to the Civil Rights … Continue reading
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Kiera Wilmot, the Honor Student Who Was Arrested For a Botched Science Experiment, Tells Her Story
Advancement Project: “This is the story of Kiera Wilmot, who in her efforts to further her education, found herself caught up in the school-to-prison pipeline — arrested for a science experiment due to unfair disciplinary policies run without reason or … Continue reading
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JJIE: “Life after Juvenile Detention”
Juvenile Justice Information Exchange: “By: ELLY YU | May 23, 2014 JONESBORO, Ga. — Of all the birthdays Julie Kisaka remembers from her childhood, one clearly stands out among the rest. “There’s nothing worse than celebrating your 15th birthday in jail,” Kisaka said. … Continue reading
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“Are School Closings the ‘New Jim Crow’? Activists File Civil Rights Complaints.”
The Washington Post: BY LYNDSEY LAYTON May 13 “Correction: An earlier version of this article misspelled the name of the Advancement Project’s Judith Browne Dianis. This version has been corrected. Arguing that school closures in cities across the … Continue reading
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Communities Around The Country Gear Up For National Week of Action Against Incarcerating Youth!
A pipeline runs in a single direction, and once entered into the mouth, destiny sweeps everything before it to the bottom; a pipeline offers no exits, no deviations or departures, no way out—unless it fractures. From Education to Incarceration is … Continue reading
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Powerful youth journalism: “Lost Friends: Violence through the eyes of Chicago’s youth”
The pain, fear and trauma that youth go through daily as a result of their close proximity to indiscriminate violence is seldom given space for acknowledgement and healing and is in fact–often repressed or silenced via institutional racism and oppression. … Continue reading
Posted in Criminalizing Youth, Harsh Disciplinary Policies, Restorative Justice, School Pushout, School to Prison Pipeline, School-based arrests, Suicide, Uncategorized, Zero Tolerance
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“Mother’s Day When Your Mom’s in Prison”
The effects of incarceration are numerous – visible & subtle, long-lasting and comprehensive. Particularly, it is seldom that the majority of us are exposed to the stories of those children whose parents have been locked up. Incarceration affects the families … Continue reading
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May 19 – Week of Action Against Incarcerating Youth Kickoff March!
Please come out and join in an act of solidarity for the dignity of our youth! NIA Dispatches: “Please join us and several other Chicago groups on Monday, May 19, at 5pm at Paderewski Elementary School at 2221 S. Lawndale Avenue (a … Continue reading
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“School reformers: zero-tolerance not the answer”
WKAR: “Last week, students and advocates rallied at the Michigan Capitol after marching from Detroit to Lansing on foot. Students’ marching hoped to raise awareness about the state’s school discipline policies. At the rally, they asked lawmakers to remove legislation … Continue reading
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