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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!
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“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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“Paper airplanes to suspensions: Solutions Not Suspensions gets students talking about discipline”
Daily Planet: “A frustrated teacher at the helm of an unruly classroom– students shouting, texting and throwing paper airplanes. Although this type of ‘disruptive behavior’ may be a reality for many teachers on a daily basis, this particular scenario was … Continue reading
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“Boys in detention in Connecticut at a 10-year high (Part 1)”
“Hakeem A. was recently sent to live at the state’s juvenile detention center for smoking marijuana and leaving his house without his parents’ permission – both violations of his probation. Jusstice W. was also recently locked up at the Connecticut … Continue reading
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ABA Journal: ‘School-to-Prison’ Pipeline Must End, Lawyers and Educators Say
ABA Journal: “Students of color, particularly boys, are suspended and expelled at alarming rates, and zero-tolerance school discipline polices fail the communities they serve, said speakers on an panel sponsored by various ABA entities. Black students are 3.5 times more … 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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“Exploring Strategies to Stem the School-to-Prison Pipeline for Students with Disabilities”
From the Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law: “”Kiera” is a 13-year-old 7th grader placed in a segregated classroom for students with emotional disabilities. (Kiera is a client of Maryland Disability Law Center; I have changed her name and altered details … Continue reading
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Powerful Photojournalism Explores Forgotten Children
Wichita Public Radio: “The Ulrich Museum’s exhibition Juvenile in Justice presents the award–winning work of photographer Richard Ross. His documentary photographs are a stark look at America’s youth who are currently housed in state-run juvenile detention centers. Ross has visited … Continue reading
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“Burbank School Suspension Rate Drops”
From The Burbank Leader: Lower number of suspensions and expulsions follows statewide trend. January 31, 2014|By Kelly Corrigan, kelly.corrigan@latimes.com “Burbank Unified school district is falling in line with a growing state trend that has seen student suspensions decline over the past … Continue reading
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GantDaily: FL Juvenile Detention Center’s Graveyard Yields 55 Bodies
Among the many harms of criminalizing and pushing out youth from school for “insubordination” and other non-violent offenses, is the detention centers they can be sent to. The harsh and brutal legacy of AGDSB carries on to present … Continue reading
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Infographic: How High-Stakes Testing Feeds the School-to-Prison Pipeline
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THIS SITE IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION!
This will be the Suspension Stories site! We hope to have this site fully up and running in January 2011. Please look out for it at that time! In the meantime, you can watch some suspension stories on our Youtube … Continue reading
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