Sentences with phrase «over juvenile justice reform»

Jettisoned from the budget talks, too, were discussions over juvenile justice reform and curtailing sexual assault on college campuses (funding for raising the age of criminal responsibility is still under discussion in the budget talks).

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Raising the age of criminal responsibility has stalled in the Legislature over the last several years as juvenile justice reform advocates push the state to become one of the last to treat 16 and 17 - year - olds as juveniles in most criminal proceedings.

However, the debate over reforms to the juvenile justice system proved to be deeply complex and, for now, are being pushed further down the legislative docket.

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.