Toolkit on Organizing to Combat the School-to-Prison Pipeline

Improving Public Schools

Student-Parent Handbook: School Discipline, School Pushout, Student-Parent Handbook

Student-Parent Handbook: School Discipline, School Pushout, Student-Parent Handbook

This Model Student and Parent Handbook for schools and districts from Southern Echo in Mississippi is where the rules and regulations are set out on the record for everyone to ... MORE

What Organizers Need to Know About ESSA: Every Student Succeeds Act

What Organizers Need to Know About ESSA: Every Student Succeeds Act

The Schott Foundation has created an easy to use Infographic for Organizers’ use in effective ESSA implementation in their local work. This one page document is easy to interpret and ... MORE

Ed Trust – Every Student Succeeds Act: What’s In It?  What Does it Mean for Equity?

Ed Trust – Every Student Succeeds Act: What’s In It? What Does it Mean for Equity?

ESSA contains a number of meaningful levers that education leaders, parents, members of the business and civil rights communities, and advocates can use to advance education equity. These levers, covered ... MORE

IEPplan.com

IEPplan.com

This is an online resource that empowers students and parents to create their own IEP/504 Teams virtually, allowing them to gain valuable support and insight from a diverse group of ... MORE

Victor Rios TED Talk: Help for Kids the System Ignores

Victor Rios TED Talk: Help for Kids the System Ignores

What if one were born without straps on one’s boots—how can one pull oneself up by the bootstraps? As a child VR experienced and overcame pushout and university probation. The ... MORE

TX School Safety Center – Thinking About the School to Prison Pipeline

TX School Safety Center – Thinking About the School to Prison Pipeline

This Texas school Safety Center resource argues for use of current knowledge as a guide toward optimum outcomes for all evidence -based decision making to determine a course of action ... MORE

CADRE/NESRI: Bringing A Human Rights Vision to Public Schools: A Training Manual for Organizers

CADRE/NESRI: Bringing A Human Rights Vision to Public Schools: A Training Manual for Organizers

NESRI and CADRE Training manual introduces the concept of human rights, how they apply to the right to education in the US, and the ways in which human rights can ... MORE