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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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- “Charter schools’ discipline policy under fire”
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- Kiera Wilmot, the Honor Student Who Was Arrested For a Botched Science Experiment, Tells Her Story
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- Communities Around The Country Gear Up For National Week of Action Against Incarcerating Youth!
Category Archives: Criminalizing Youth
New Report: Policing Chicago Public Schools
“Our schools have become almost like satellite police stations.” – Steve Drizin[1] Project NIA (www.project-nia.org) has released a new report titled “Policing Chicago Public Schools: A Gateway to the School-to-Prison Pipeline.” The report relies on data from the Chicago Police … Continue reading
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Black Boys Receive Less Attention, Harsher Discipline, and Lower Grades in School
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2012 School-to-Prison Pipeline Regional Action Camps
The overuse of harsh zero-tolerance measures, police, and juvenile courts in addressing school disciplinary issues has led to the needless pushout and criminalization of countless youth across America. In response, a growing national movement has emerged to dismantle this School-to-Prison … Continue reading
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Special Issue of Rethinking Schools: School-to-Prison Pipeline
Rethinking Schools has an excellent new issue focusing on the school-to-prison pipeline. Take some time to read through some of the great articles in the issue. From their editorial: “Every man in my family has been locked up. Most days … Continue reading
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October 1 to 8 is the National Week of Action on School Pushout
This is a short video by the Dignity in Schools Campaign announcing the upcoming Week of Action on School Pushout.
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Every Second A Public School Student is Suspended…
This shocking statistic comes from the newly-released 2011 State of America’s Children Report by the Children’s Defense Fund. The reports also highlights the following findings that illustrate the school-to-prison pipeline: * Nearly 80 percent or more of Black and Hispanic … Continue reading
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Do School Suspensions Lead to Prison? A Blog Post from the Black Youth Project
The social and economic implications of the quality education that children in the United States of America receive while not absolute are critical in determining their future trajectories. The institution that children come into contact with the most in their … Continue reading
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Some Schools Are Rethinking Zero Tolerance
From the Washington Post: Nearly two decades after a zero-tolerance culture took hold in American schools, a growing number of educators and elected leaders are scaling back discipline policies that led to lengthy suspensions and ousters for such mistakes as … Continue reading
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Apparently Texas is Suspending and Arresting Most of Its High School Seniors…
The following article from Youth Today is stunning: More Texas students have been suspended or expelled than have not, according to a forthcoming study of state trends on school discipline. And the margin isn’t that close. Details of the study … Continue reading
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New Resource: School-to-Prison Pipeline Zine
This new zine about the school-to-prison pipeline was illustrated and written by teaching artist Rachel Marie-Crane Williams. This is part of a larger collaborative initiative called the Cradle-to-Prison Pipeline Comic Arts Zine Project. This initiative brought together the Jane Addams … Continue reading
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An interview with author of “Lockdown High: When the School House Becomes A Jail House”
From New America Media: Former NAM managing editor Annette Fuentes is the author of a new book, Lockdown High: When the Schoolhouse Becomes the Jail House, published by Verso. The book explores the reasons zero-tolerance policies have grown and investigates … Continue reading
Chicago Has a new Schools CEO and Community Groups are Pressing Him to Address Suspensions
Journalist Rebecca Vivea features the work of local Chicago organizations who want the new Chicago Public School CEO to address the issue of suspensions and expulsions of students. From the article: A coalition of community organizations pushing for Chicago Public … Continue reading
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