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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: Suicide
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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Moms Debate Zero Tolerance Policies on NPR
You can listen to the story here. The recent suicide of a student in suburban Washington, D.C., after being suspended from school has sparked a fierce debate on disciplinary policies. Angry parents say “zero tolerance” rules are too harsh on … Continue reading
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Maryland Reviews Zero Tolerance Policies in the Wake of a Virginia Student’s Suicide
From ABC 2: Headlines in the Washington Post are turning the heads of some state school board members in Maryland after a student who admitted to buying a fake drug from a classmate was kicked off the football team, transferred … Continue reading
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A Teen Suicide Leads to Questions about Harsh School Disciplinary Policies
From the Washington Post: The apparent suicide of a 15-year-old high school football player in Fairfax County has sparked concern about the school district’s disciplinary policies, which critics say are overly punitive and often debilitating for students. The concerns come … Continue reading
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