School-to-Prison Pipeline
Across the country, school systems are shutting the doors of academic opportunity for students and funneling them, unnecessarily, into the juvenile and criminal justice system. The school to prison pipeline is a racial justice crisis: students pushed out of school are disproportionately students of color. Our Ending the Schoolhouse to Jailhouse Track Project reduces the use of out-of-school suspensions and ends criminalization of students, while developing nurturing learning environments. We work at both the national level and on the ground with our community partners, including young people, to examine, expose and reform practices that lead to the criminalization of students. Our groundbreaking work in this area has led to significant change and supported the leadership development of students.The newsletter of resistance for people of color.
On honoring your ancestors by doing what they did for centuries-being bold and courageous enough to have a stubborn belief.
For Black people to imagine a country and a world free of white supremacy and all of its intersectional tentacles of oppression is a radical act.
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The very same police that are killing Black youth in the streets have found their way into our schools.
Are public schools making as much progress on school climate as they claim?