DSC-NY has launched its first blog. Read about the campaign's most recent happenings at Stop Student Suspensions.

The New York Chapter of the Dignity in Schools Campaign (DSC-NY) is a citywide coalition of students, parents, advocates, educators and lawyers calling for positive, school-wide approaches to discipline that improve the school environment, reduce conflict, and increase learning. We work to reduce suspensions and other harsh policies that violate students’ human right to education and to be treated with dignity.  Students, parents and educators have a right to participate in decision-making related to discipline policies in schools.

Read our Platform for Positive School Discipline in New York City Schools

Read our Fact Sheet on NYC School Discipline Statistics

Sign-on to our Call to Action

Watch recent videos of DSC-NY events:

    - February 22, 2012 Press Conference and Rally at One Police Plaza

    - October 4, 2011 Rally and Street Theatre at City Hall

    - June 21, 2011 Press Conference and Testimony at DOE Discipline Code Hearing

Our Members:

Advocates for Children of New York, American Friends Service Committee- NY, Brooklyn Movement Center, Center for Community Alternatives, Children’s Defense Fund-New York, Coalition for Asian American Children and Families, Coalition for Gender Equity in Schools, Desis Rising Up and Moving (DRUM), Future of Tomorrow, Make the Road New York, Mass Transit Street Theater, National Economic and Social Rights Initiative (NESRI), New Settlement Apartments Parent Action Committee, Pumphouse Projects, Sistas and Brothas United, Teachers Unite, The Sikh Coalition, Urban Youth Collaborative (UYC), Ya Ya Network, Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice, Youth on the Move, and Youth Represent.

Our Work:

DSC-NY develops policy recommendations and organizes testimony before the Department of Education to change New York City's school discipline policies, and holds workshops and teach-ins to engage students, parents and educators in our work.

To get involved contact Shoshi Chowdhury, DSC-NY Coordinator at shoshi@nesri.org or 212-253-1710 ext. 314.

DSC-NY Blog:

• 5/05/2012, New York City Faces School Arrests and Failing Mental Health Programs in Public Schools
• 3/07/2012, Bronx Youth of Color Most Vulnerable to School Arrests and Summonses
• 2/07/2012, States Should Follow Maryland and Take Action to Curb Suspensions in Schools
• 10/13/2011, They Say Push Out, We Say Push Back!
• 8/15/2011, Girls for Gender Equity Helps Educators Reflect on Sexual Harassment in Schools
• 8/11/2011, Teachers Unite and DSC-NY Present Workshop on Fairness Committees
• 7/12/2011, DSC-NY Action at June 21 Hearing on School Discipline Code

Latest News:

• 6/04/2012, The New York Times: The City Council Speaker Weighs in on Changes to the School Discipline Code
• 5/31/2012, NY Daily News: New Analysis of NYPD school safety data shows most school arrests and summons happen in the Bronx
• 5/16/2012, Huffington Post: Bronx Parents and Community Members Protest Harsh Disciplinary Procedures
• 5/14/2012, Times-Picayune: School District Grapples with Discipline Policies
• 3/13/2012, Huffington Post: Bronx Youth of Color Most Vulnerable to School Arrests and Summonses
• 3/08/2012, The Village Voice: Advocates Rally Against Arrests of Minority Students in Public Schools
• 3/08/2012, NY Daily News: Rally cry will be: Arresting schoolkids isn’t the answer
• 3/01/2012, Amsterdam News: Students of color still being targeted in school arrests and summonses
• 3/01/2012, Huffington Post: What the Bloomberg Administration Seems to Forget
• 2/29/2012, Manhattan Times: Students and advocates protest NYPD in schools
• 2/23/2012, Huffington Post: 5 NYC Students Arrested By NYPD Every Day In School, 90 Percent Are Black Or Latino
• 2/23/2012, New York Post: Apple schools go ‘bust’
• 2/22/2012, Epoch Times: Too Many Arrests and Summonses in Schools, Says Coalition
• 2/22/2012, NY Times: Five Students Arrested a Day, Police Data Show
• 2/22/2012, Gotham Schools: Average of five students arrested per day at city schools last fall
• 2/22/2012, CBS NY: Civil Liberties Groups Charge Over-Policing In NYC Schools
• 12/01/2011, Gotham Schools: Students, Advocates Rail Against Suspension Trends at Hearing
• 11/03/2011, Gotham Schools: NYPD is Urged to Be Like the DOE and Release School Safety Data
• 11/02/2011, Inside Schools: Black Special Ed Kids Suspended Most
• 11/02/2011, NY Daily News: New York City Disabled Dtudents More Likely to Be Suspended from Public Schools
• 11/01/2011, NY Post: Little horrors: City kindergarteners being suspended for misbehaving
• 10/13/2011, Queens Chronicle: Students Urge Change in School Discipline
• 9/27/2011, Gotham Gazette: New York's Pushout Crisis: Why Students Don't Graduate
• 6/23/2011, The Amsterdam News: Parents Practice Punitive Discipline in New York City Schools
• 6/23/2011, Queens Chronicle: Protesting School Suspension Rates

DSC-NY Press Releases:

• 10/05/2012, New Yorkers March Across Brooklyn Bridge to Call Attention to High Suspension Rates
• 6/05/12, Suspension Crisis in NYC Schools; Students, Parents, Teachers to Rally at NYC DOE Hearing
• 5/23/2012, Students, Parents and Teachers Say Changes in NYC's Draft School Discipline Code Don't Go Far Enough to Fix Broken System
• 4/20/2012, School-based Arrests Criminalize Students and Feed the School to Prison Pipeline
• 3/07/2012, Parents, Students, Electeds, and Allies to Challenge Staggering Stats on School-Based Arrests in the Bronx and Call for Positive Discipline
• 2/22/12, Students, Advocates Release First-Ever School Year Student Arrest & Summons Data; Stats Show Unequal Punishment, Over-Policing
• 11/04/2011,  Student Safety Act Data Reinforce Need for Positive Alternatives to Suspensions
• 9/09/2011, DSC-NY: High Suspension Rates Will Continue Unless Bloomberg and Walcott Take Action

DSC-NY Photo Gallery:

• 2/22/2012, Press Conference and Rally
• 10/04/2011, National Week of Action 2011
• 6/21/2011, DOE Hearing on School Discipline Code