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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!
Category Archives: Criminalizing Youth
“Can the ‘School-to-Prison’ Pipeline Be Snapped? Up Close with James Bell and Katayoon Majid”
Chicago Bureau: “For those who follow corrections, it comes as little surprise that the United States leads the world in the rates of incarcerated – and it leads with state spending on corrections totaling approximately $52 billion, the bulk of … Continue reading
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SF Examiner: Classrooms, not courtrooms: SF resolution takes aim at school to prison pipeline
San Francisco Examiner: “Last year, my office handled 4,500 court appearances for kids accused of committing crimes in San Francisco. Most of our young clients landed in the juvenile-justice system after being funneled out of The City’s public schools — … Continue reading
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“North Carolina’s School-to-Prison Pipeline”
This is a powerful student-made documentary that features the voices of concerned community leaders and most importantly, youth themselves, who have been arrested, suspended and/or expelled in school. They talk about how these harsh disciplinary measures affect their lives in … Continue reading
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“Film explores ‘Kids for Cash’ scandal in Pa.”
From The Trentonian: PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Charlie Balasavage, a baby-faced boy of 14, landed in juvenile detention after his parents bought him a stolen scooter. Hillary Transue was sent away over a MySpace parody of her vice principal. Justin Bodnar was … 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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Lessons of the School to Prison Pipeline, from Saved Like the Bell & Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
“A new video from the Advancement Project highlights exactly the sorts of student infractions—talking out of turn or failing to keep to the dress code—which used to be dealt with with a stern talking-to or at worst, detention but which … Continue reading
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Gone Too Far: Our Kids in Handcuffs
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September 28-October 5: National Week of Action Against School Pushout
The 4th Annual National Week of Action on School Pushout will take place during the week of September 28 – October 5, 2013. Youth, parents and educators will hold rallies, marches, forums and teach-ins in 26 cities across 18 states … Continue reading
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Infographic: School to Prison Pipeline
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