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Dan Losen Written Testimony – Brown v. Board of Education at 65: A Promise Unfulfilled

Requesting Data from Your District

Every two years, the federal Civil Rights Data Collection gathers data from every public school district, including charter schools, juvenile justice facilities and alternative schools.  The latest data available on the CRDC website is from the 2015-2016 school year.… More

Participatory Action Research: Understanding your Districts Discipline Data

What are the opportunities to use data for greater leverage toward systemic change? This video/training explores a dialogue that complicates our relationship with data and goes beyond traditional inquiries into just the numbers. Centering CADRE’s work with parents in South… More

Education Not Deportation: Impacts of New York City School Safety Policies on South Asian Immigrant Youth

This report from Desis Rising Up and Moving (DRUM) is based on a Participatory Action Research (PAR) project that documents South Asian youths' experiences with police, school safety officers, and teachers in schools. This report analyzes data collected from a… More

Demanding Dignity in Our Schools: Calling for Full Implementation of SWPBIS in LAUSD South LA Schools

This report from Community Asset Development Re-defining Education (CADRE), Public Counsel Law Center and Mental Health Advocacy Services, Inc. reviews Los Angelse Unified School District (LAUSD) discipline data for the 2009-2010 through 2011-2012 school years, along with implementation of School-Wide Positive… More

Redefining Dignity in Our Schools: A Shadow Report on SWPBIS in South LA, 2007-2010

This report from CADRE, Mental Health Advocacy Services and Public Counsel Law Center looks at the degree to which schools in South Los Angeles are implementing School-wide Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (SWPBIS) based on existing data and Participatory Action… More

Texas’ School-to-Prison Pipeline: Ticketing, Arrest & Use of Force in Schools

Texas Appleseed’s extensive analysis of Texas school discipline data includes analysis of referrals to Juvenile Justice Alternative Education Programs and ends with recommendations. More

Civil Rights Project Online Suspension Data Tool

This online tool from the Center for Civil Rights Remedies at the Civil Rights Project of UCLA includes a searchable database on suspension rates in U.S. schools as well as recent reports and downloadable spreadsheets with data. Visit the website… More