Sentences with phrase «justice programs in schools»

The funds raised at Spring for Peace directly support Peacebuilders» restorative justice programs in schools, courts, and communities — accounting for more than 1/4 of the organization's annual operating budget.

The goal is to support grassroots efforts and to ensure that there's both consistency and accountability for restorative justice programs in schools.

And the D.O.E. has been piloting restorative justice programs in schools for several months, largely through a program called Man Up!

Now, under a restorative justice program in his school, Stone said «we have adults who will actually listen.»

Not exact matches

Responding to those calls, House lawmakers proposed $ 2.3 billion in March toward funding mental health, additional training, and school safety programs at the Departments of Justice, Education and Health and Human Services.

This effort, like that of the NCBCPS, relies heavily on the distinction made by Justice Thomas Clark in the 1963 Supreme Court decision forbidding devotional reading of the Bible in public schools: «Nothing we have said here indicates that such study of the Bible or of religion, when presented objectively as part of a secular program of education, may not be effected consistently with the First Amendment.»

You'll leave this course with an understanding of how school food operates, and how a healthy school meal program can play a role in social justice issues for kids across the nation.

The D.O.E. will dedicate $ 1.2 million for restorative justice programs in 100 schools, $ 2.3 million for supports for court - involved students, $ 1.45 million to reduce 911 referrals for disruptive students by properly training staff, and $ 432,000 for an intensive algebra - based mentoring program called SAGA Innovations.

In exchange, the schools offer programs to promote Dr. King's vision of equality and justice through literacy.

«People like to give to a winner and one way to show you are a winner is the amount of money in your campaign account,» said Ian Vandewalker, senior counsel for the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, a nonpartisan law and policy institute.

Formerly served as deputy director of the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, where he worked on election law and campaign finance reform, and published a comprehensive analysis of the legislative process in the state Legislature.

«Together the pro-fossil fuel team of McMorris at Interior and Scott Pruitt at EPA is a disaster in the making for efforts to reign in CO2 before we hit truly awful tipping points,» said Jack Tuholske, director of the Vermont Law School Water and Justice Program.

Justice Kennedy offered what he regarded as acceptable methods of considering race such as «strategic site selection of new schools; drawing attendance zones with general recognition of the demographics of neighborhoods; allocating resources for special programs; recruiting students and faculty in a targeted fashion; and tracking enrollments, performance, and other statistics by race.»

Paez returned to the Harvard Graduate School of Education to discuss with students in the International Education Policy and Education Policy and Management programs the opportunities and challenges of advancing reforms that seek greater social justice.

Clayton County (Georgia) Juvenile Court has a program called System of Care, which partners with local schools and law enforcement to find ways of disciplining young people while keeping them in school and out of the juvenile justice system.

«Today's reauthorization of the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program should send a strong message to parents across the country who seek to fight for their children's rights: If you fight for your children and you never give up, the road will not always be easy, but in the end, justice will prevail,» said Virginia Walden Ford, executive director of D.C. Parents for School Choice.

Contrary to allegations by the U.S. Department of Justice, the scholarship program improves racial integration in public schools in 34 districts under desegregation orders

The Institute for Justice, which coordinated the defense of Cleveland's school voucher program in the landmark 2002 Zelman case, intervened on behalf of program beneficiaries in each case.

Rolling out a restorative - justice program, whether in the classroom or across a school or district, requires comprehensive planning.

Arenas leads Hoover's after - school Garden Nutrition classes, one of several programs comprising the educational outreach of the People's Grocery, a nonprofit West Oakland organization that, in addition to providing the community with access to high - quality, affordable food, aims to educate children and adults about nutrition and what it calls «food justice,» or «the human right to healthy food.»

The restorative - justice program at Ypislanti High School engages students in peer mediation in a «conflict resolution center.»

Oakland Unified School District first implemented its restorative justice program at one school inSchool District first implemented its restorative justice program at one school inschool in 2007.

Chanin's most difficult task was to show that the community schools in Cleveland were irrelevant because, in Chanin's view, the justices were legally required to look not at the entire situation in Cleveland but only at the specific statute creating the voucher program.

«Conflict Resolution Education: A Guide to Implementing Programs in Schools, Youth - Serving Organizations, and Community and Juvenile Justice Settings,» a joint report from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention and the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, cites examples of effective conflict resolution pPrograms in Schools, Youth - Serving Organizations, and Community and Juvenile Justice Settings,» a joint report from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention and the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, cites examples of effective conflict resolution programsprograms.

Indeed, the study concludes that «it would appear that the voucher program is also beneficial for school integration in the very districts that are the subject of the Department of Justice litigation.»

Duhon has directed higher - education service - learning programs, taught at the high school and college levels, and led and collaborated on several community, social justice, and faith - based initiatives in New York and Cleveland.

Another targeted program, restorative justice, uses peaceful and nonpunitive approaches to address misbehavior and solve problems in school.

Insisting that it was not hostile to vouchers — or, by extension, to the children, parents, or private schools that could benefit from them — the Obama administration's Department of Justice (DOJ) in August 2013 mounted an attack on Governor Bobby Jindal's Louisiana voucher program that shocked the editorial page of the Washington Post («Voucher Madness,» September 2, 2013).

Over the past two years, suspensions have declined to one - fifth of the previous figure, thanks in part to a restorative justice program and an emphasis on positive school culture.

The program has recently come under fire from the U.S. Department of Justice, which has filed a lawsuit alleging the program is impeding federal school - desegregation efforts initiated in the 1970s.

«Using Dialogue Circles to Support Classroom Management,» a resource from Edutopia's Schools That Work, explores how dialogue circles, as part of the restorative - justice program at Glenview Elementary School in Oakland, California, have helped to build collaboration, respect, and positive behavior among students.

Recognized as a national expert, her contribution to the Greenhaven Prison Program at Vassar College, Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem, Vera Institute of Justice, Kings County District Attorney»s Office, Interfaith Justice Project at The Riverside Church, Open Society Institute» «s After Prison Initiative, Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & Justice at Harvard Law School, Boston University»s Prison Education Program, Department of Justice» «s Norval Morris Project, and Truth Commission on Conscience in War has facilitated work with numerous schools and prisons in various states for the last 25 years.

The justices» landmark decision in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1 struck down voluntarily adopted integration programs in Seattle and Jefferson County, Kentucky, and called into question similar race - based systems that operate in hundreds of other districts.

Telia Kapteyn Learning and Teaching Hometown: Atlanta Experience: Taught kindergarten as a Teach For America corps member in Brooklyn, New York; high school English teacher in a rural fishing village in Malaysia on a Fulbright Scholarship; elementary school teacher at a KIPP school in the Arkansas Delta Future plans: First - grade teacher at Brooke Charter School in Roslindale, Massachusetts; cohort leader in Teach For America's Education 4 Justice pilot program, which seeks to prepare teachers to incorporate social justice pedagogy into their classchool English teacher in a rural fishing village in Malaysia on a Fulbright Scholarship; elementary school teacher at a KIPP school in the Arkansas Delta Future plans: First - grade teacher at Brooke Charter School in Roslindale, Massachusetts; cohort leader in Teach For America's Education 4 Justice pilot program, which seeks to prepare teachers to incorporate social justice pedagogy into their classchool teacher at a KIPP school in the Arkansas Delta Future plans: First - grade teacher at Brooke Charter School in Roslindale, Massachusetts; cohort leader in Teach For America's Education 4 Justice pilot program, which seeks to prepare teachers to incorporate social justice pedagogy into their classchool in the Arkansas Delta Future plans: First - grade teacher at Brooke Charter School in Roslindale, Massachusetts; cohort leader in Teach For America's Education 4 Justice pilot program, which seeks to prepare teachers to incorporate social justice pedagogy into their clasSchool in Roslindale, Massachusetts; cohort leader in Teach For America's Education 4 Justice pilot program, which seeks to prepare teachers to incorporate social justice pedagogy into their claJustice pilot program, which seeks to prepare teachers to incorporate social justice pedagogy into their clajustice pedagogy into their classrooms

Thus, it would appear that the voucher program is also beneficial for school integration in the very districts that are the subject of the Department of Justice litigation.

The latest suit also marks the second time in a year that Jindal has locked horns with the federal government over education: He and the Justice Department claimed partial victories in a dispute over a private school voucher program that the feds said affected desegregation efforts in Louisiana public schools.

While awareness of restorative justice is high among school officials statewide, budgets for programs remain tiny in most school districts.

In a stinging rebuke, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the U.S. Department of Justice's «disingenuous» attempt to use a decades - old desegregation lawsuit to curb or control Louisiana's voucher program for low - income students assigned to failing district schools.

But the U.S. Department of Justice contends that last year's voucher program damaged civil rights progress by erasing school integration gains in 13 of the 34 school systems that are under long - standing desegregation orders.

The American Federation for Children, the nation's voice for educational choice and its state affiliate, the Louisiana Federation for Children, celebrated a decision from the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in ruling against the U.S. Department of Justice's attempt to regulate and undermine the state's private school choice program, the Louisiana Scholarship Pprogram, the Louisiana Scholarship ProgramProgram.

The U.S. Department of Justice tried to use a 40 year old desegregation case to undermine a program that's designed to empower low - income families with children trapped in failing schools a pathway to a higher quality education.»

The district also has campaigns that address chronic absences of students who miss 15 or more days of school, promote dental and eye care in the schools, and promote Restorative Justice programs to prevent bullying and encourage safe environments.

The Oregon bill establishes a pilot program to use trauma - informed practices in schools, utilizing national models and coordinating school - based resources (school health centers, nurses, counselors, and administrators) with the efforts of coordinated - care organizations, public health, nonprofits, the justice system, businesses, and parents.

She has assisted CSUN, LAUSD, the Ventura Unified School District, UTLA, and UCLA Teacher Preparation Program professors among others in their journeys in teaching toward equity and social justice.

However, as the need grew for legal defense of emerging school choice programs, Bolick turned his attention to it and co-founded the libertarian, public interest law firm Institute for Justice in 1991 with seed money from David and Charles Koch.

These institutions promote social justice and inclusivity as virtues of good character, and where public school attendance is determined by residence and highly segregated on socioeconomic lines, Catholic schools, especially those that participate in school choice programs, are diverse in terms of race, social class and even religion.

«Compared to other states, North Carolina has a pretty good fiscal capacity for spending — but it isn't spending its money on public schools,» said Molly Hunter, director of the ELC's Education Justice program, noting that the Tar Heel state was very last in terms of the «effort» it put into school funding.

«It's certainly troubling if any school, in anticipation of voucher legislation being passed, artificially raised its tuition in order to maximize the taxpayer money coming to the school under the voucher program,» said former state Supreme Court Justice Robert Orr, who now represents the N.C. School Boards Association in the school voucher litigschool, in anticipation of voucher legislation being passed, artificially raised its tuition in order to maximize the taxpayer money coming to the school under the voucher program,» said former state Supreme Court Justice Robert Orr, who now represents the N.C. School Boards Association in the school voucher litigschool under the voucher program,» said former state Supreme Court Justice Robert Orr, who now represents the N.C. School Boards Association in the school voucher litigSchool Boards Association in the school voucher litigschool voucher litigation.

Restorative justice programs are not without risk, particularly in school settings, and poor implementation can actually make problems worse, according to some experts.

As a result, alternative programs like restorative justice are gaining popularity in public schools from Maine to Oregon.