Suspended Education in Pittsburgh Public Schools 2015-6
This report gives an overview of out-of-school suspensions in the district, and draws attention to two particular areas of concern: suspensions of our youngest learners,…
Police in Schools are Not the Answer to School Shootings
Police in Schools Are Not the Answer to School Shootings A joint issue brief of: Advancement Project Alliance for Educational Justice Dignity in Schools Campaign…
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…
Student Rights in School? There’s an App for That!
This website and video provides an overview of the Student Rights App created by the Boston Student Advisory Council (BSAC) for the students of Boston…
School to Deportation Pipeline Know Your Rights Guides
A small group of members has been meeting to discuss the School to Deportation Pipeline, how immigrant and undocumented youth in schools can face immigration…
Suspended Progress 2017: An update on the state of exclusionary discipline in Virginia’s public schools
In 2016, the Legal Aid Justice Center released Suspended Progress, an issue brief on the state of exclusionary discipline in the Commonwealth of Virginia’s public…
Miami-Dade County Public Schools: The Hidden Truth
Using a Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) approach developed with support from a doctoral student from the University of Colorado, members of Power U conducted…
Federal School Discipline Guidance Resources
On January 8, 2014, the U.S. Department of Justice and the Department of Education jointly released a school discipline guidance package. The materials included were…
Communicating about ESSA and Equity: Lessons Learned from New Research
Discourse on education is a muddled morass where “school choice,” “reform,” and “accountability” are used on all sides. Advocates for advancing equity in public schooling…
Locked Out of the Classroom: How Implicit Bias Contributes to Disparities in School Discipline
While racial segregation in schools has been unconstitutional for over fifty years, Black students continue to face discrimination in the form of excessive school discipline.…