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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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Category Archives: Zero Tolerance
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
Tagged Youth empowerment
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Youth March From Detroit to Lansing Against Zero Tolerance Policies
“Students, parents challenge zero-tolerance policies” “Detroit Free Press: DETROIT — Michael Reynolds is willing to go to extremes to shed light on what he says is a big problem: zero-tolerance policies that are driving kids like him out of school … Continue reading
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“Students Draw Attention to Wake Schools Disciplinary Policies”
ABC Local: “CARY, N.C. (WTVD) — Wake County high school students sent a powerful message to school board members Tuesday evening. Students have criticized school disciplinary policies in the past, but, now, they were advocating for a classmate in jail. Some … Continue reading
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“Zero-Tolerance Strikes Again: Holding Up Three Fingers in a Photo Got This 15-Year-Old Suspended”
Take Part: “Dontadrian Bruce is the kind of kid the U.S. Departments of Education and Justice might have had in mind when they released the new school disciplinary guidelines in January. The new federal approach urges schools to move away from harsh … Continue reading
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“Suspensions at R.I. schools down; rates for minority students disproportionately high”
Providence Journal: PROVIDENCE, R.I. — “Although the total number of suspensions in Rhode Island public schools has declined dramatically, minority students are suspended at disproportionately higher rates than their white peers, according to the Rhode Island Affiliate of the American … Continue reading
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“We were about to put this kid out of school, when what he really deserved was a medal.”
Yes! Magazine: “Tommy, an agitated 14-year-old high school student in Oakland, Calif., was in the hallway cursing out his teacher at the top of his lungs. A few minutes earlier, in the classroom, he’d called her a “b___” after she … Continue reading
Posted in Restorative Justice, Zero Tolerance
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Christian Science Monitor: “Ohio boy suspended for pointing finger like a gun. ‘Zero tolerance’ run amok?”
Christian Science Monitor: “The suspension last week of an Ohio fifth-grader who formed his hand into the shape of a gun and pointed his finger “execution-style” at a classmate is fueling the debate over whether school administrators under pressure to keep schools … 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
Posted in Criminalizing Youth, School-based arrests, Zero Tolerance
Tagged LGBT Students
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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
Posted in Criminalizing Youth, Harsh Disciplinary Policies, School Pushout, School to Prison Pipeline, School-based arrests, Zero Tolerance
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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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