Sentences with phrase «harsh school discipline»

We've worked to reform harsh school discipline policies that push children — overwhelming African American — out of school and into the justice system.

The vote represents a key victory in the fight to end harsh school discipline policies.

This is even clear now in discussions over revamping No Child; proposals by congressional Republicans to voucherize Title 1 funding originate from the passage of school voucher initiatives in states such as Indiana and Louisiana, while the Obama Administration's initiative on reducing the overuse of harsh school discipline result in part from efforts by activists in states such as Maryland.

The Just and Fair Schools Fund (JFSF) at Public Interest Projects supports grassroots organizing initiatives that work to eliminate harsh school discipline policies and practices — and that uphold the right to education for all youth.

The thing is that Eden's shoddy work product could easily be ignored if not for the fact that he, along with Fordham's Petrilli, is a leader in the effort to convince the Trump Administration and DeVos to reverse the Obama Administration - era Dear Colleague guidance pushing districts to end overuse of suspensions and other forms of harsh school discipline against poor and minority children.

Oakland Community Organizations (OCO) parent and student leaders testified to California lawmakers on effective alternatives to harsh school discipline practices.

Guided by criteria developed with the input of hundreds of students across the city, the youth panelists provided formal feedback to the Boston School Committee on each candidate, evaluating them on their willingness to allow students to be involved in the decision - making process, their focus on equity in Boston schools, and their willingness to embrace and implement restorative justice practices to limit harsh school discipline.

Your editor was too busy putting together this week's Dropout Nation analysis on overuse of harsh school discipline in the D.C. metro area to pay much attention to the announcements made by a group of education associations, old - school civil rights, and advocacy groups led by the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers calling for a «new social compact» on accountability.

With the goal of protecting students» civil rights and limiting unnecessarily harsh school discipline, the Obama administration is calling on schools to ensure that the role of on - site police is limited and clearly defined.

We target harsh school discipline policies that punish ordinary student misbehavior by suspending children's right to an education and pushing them into the justice system.

Then comes additional evidence beyond all doubt shows that overuse of harsh school discipline harms the futures of children, especially young black men and women.

Because the Penn State study should instead force reformers and traditionalists to agree at least on one thing: It's time to ditch the overuse of harsh school discipline once and for all.

Put bluntly, if you are a black kid condemned to special ed in Ferguson, you have a one - in - two chance of getting suspended at some point, while the chances of harsh school discipline for a peer in St. Louis is a (admittedly not great) one - in - five.

Meanwhile Trump's ascent into the White House bodes ill for one of the Obama Administration's most - admirable efforts: Holding districts accountable for overusing out - of - school suspensions and other harsh school discipline that put poor and minority children onto the school - to - prison pipeline, an important issue both on the education and criminal justice reform fronts.

The Just and Fair Schools Fund supports grassroots organising initiatives that work to eliminate harsh school discipline policies and practices — and that uphold the right to education for all youth.

The most - important wake - up call came last month when news leaked out that the Department of Education was scaling back investigations of civil rights violations — including overuse by districts of harsh school discipline against Black and other minority children — as part of the administration's overall refusal to enforce civil rights laws.

The Just and Fair Schools Fund (JFSF) supports grassroots organizing initiatives that work to eliminate harsh school discipline policies and practices - and that uphold the right to education for all youth.

This includes overusing out - of - school suspensions and other forms of harsh school discipline.

Harsh school discipline policies have needlessly pushed young people out of an educational environment and into the juvenile justice system for misbehavior that once warranted only a trip to the principal's office.

Harsh school discipline policies like these are feeding the school - to - prison pipeline and disproportionately hurt students of color, students with disabilities and LGBTQ students.

Yet I find myself writing briefly about the protests by high school students on behalf of gun control laws spurred by last month's massacre of 17 students and teachers at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., because the event inadvertently intersects with an issue school reformers continue to deal with badly: The debate over stemming the overuse of out - of - school suspensions and other forms of harsh school discipline.

Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces: As Dropout Nation has detailed within the past year, overuse of harsh school discipline has commingled with the militarization of police departments and referrals by districts to juvenile courts to endanger the futures (and lives) of poor and minority children in and out of school.

Dropout Nation has already documented how DeVos and her crew have slowly rolled back the Obama Administration's efforts to stem overuse of out - of - school suspensions and other forms of harsh school discipline.

Harsh school discipline policies that result in school expulsion and suspension have a detrimental effect on students and schools, including, but not limited to: reducing the time of classroom instruction and in school social interactions, removing students» access to resources such as school lunches or after school programming, and negatively impacting the school climate.

Regressive criminal justice policies and harsh school discipline policies are evil cousins that rob black and brown students» humanity.

And back in the Bay State, advocates for ending the overuse of harsh school discipline will likely leverage a report released last week by the Lawyers» Committee for Civil Rights and Economic Justice to push legislators to go their way.

That many in the school reform movement have either been reluctant or outright hostile about working with Black Lives Matter and criminal justice reform activists on addressing issues that are tied to schools (including overuse of harsh school discipline and the penchant of traditional districts to refer children to juvenile courts), has also made it easy for NEA and AFT to win over some activists.

But as your editor has noted, it's more than likely that traditionalists and reformers will simply ignore the data and evidence, and complain that any effort to end or reduce overuse of harsh school discipline is merely some form of meddling.

Other data that has accumulated over the past three decades also shows these facts: That harsh school discipline almost never leads to improvements in behavior or in school cultures.

Harsh school discipline policies disproportionately impact students of color and students with disabilities.

Besides the documented evidence that the presence of law enforces leads to overuse of harsh school discipline and exacerbates the school - to - prison pipeline, they can also end up being used by ICE as tools to identify and deport undocumented immigrant children and their families.

As you would expect, Eva Moskowitz didn't take kindly to the clarification issued by PBS yesterday about John Merrow's broadcast on the harsh school discipline practices of her Success Academy collection of charter schools.

The Just and Fair Schools Fund (JFSF) supports grassroots organizing initiatives that work to eliminate harsh school discipline policies and practices — and that uphold the right to education for all youth.

The Just and Fair Schools Fund supports grassroots organising initiatives that work to eliminate harsh school discipline policies and practices - and that uphold the right to education for all youth.

The Just and Fair Schools Fund (JFSF) at Public Interest Projects supports grassroots organizing initiatives that work to eliminate harsh school discipline policies and practices - and that uphold the right to education for all youth.