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…
Facilitating Effective Interventions: Using an Early Warning Approach to Prevent Dropouts
This report takes a look at why exactly students are dropping out, how to use data and proactive analytics tools to identify these key indicators,…
Case Study: Alternatives’ Restorative Justice work at Paul Robeson High School 2014-2017
This case study lays out the implementation of Restorative Justice practices from 2014-2017 at Robeson High School in Chicago, IL. During the tenure of the…
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)…
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…
“Rethink Discipline” Bill Package Press Relase
This is a press release to accompany the passing of a bill package to revise the state school discipline code. The Student Advocacy Center Michigan…
Fix School Discipline Website
DSC member Public Counsel has created the Fix School Discipline website as a resource for school superintendents, principals, teachers, parents, students, community leaders and…
Realizing the Full Vision of School Discipline Reform
Council of State Governments Justice Center released a school discipline publication that documents how five states – CA, CT,…
Beyond Zero Tolerance: Discipline and Policing in Pennsylvania Public Schools
ACLU of Pennsylvania Report offers history of zero tolerance policies, analysis of PA school discipline data and data re: police in schools, and recommendations for…
Advancing Educational Equity for Underserved Youth
This report outlines how the Every Student Succeeds Act gives opportunity to enhance educational equity and support underserved students. It lays out how evidence-based strategies…