The ACLU's Racial Justice Program is committed to challenging the "school to prison pipeline," a disturbing national trend wherein children are funneled out of public schools and into the juvenile and criminal justice systems. Many of these children have learning disabilities or histories of poverty, abuse or neglect, and would benefit from additional educational and counseling services. Instead, they are isolated, punished and pushed out. "Zero-tolerance" policies criminalize minor infractions of school rules, while high-stakes testing programs encourage educators to push out low-performing students to improve their schools' overall test scores. Students of color are especially vulnerable to push-out trends and the discriminatory application of discipline.
The ACLU believes that children should be educated, not incarcerated. We are working to challenge numerous policies and practices within public school systems and the juvenile justice system that contribute to the school to prison pipeline.
http://www.aclu.org/racial-justice/school-prison-pipeline
The School-to-Prison Pipeline Exposed, a new study that's thus far received very little attention, has revealed that in states that use high-stakes exit exams, students who fail these tests were more than 12 percent more likely to face incarceration and had lower graduation rates than states without exit exams. Meanwhile, the study found no consistent effects of exit exams on employment or the distribution of wages. And video.....
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=10458
Group against the trend....
Across the country, school systems are shutting the doors of academic opportunity on students and funneling them into the juvenile and criminal justice systems. The combination of overly harsh school policies and an increased role of law enforcement in schools has created a “school-to-prison pipeline,” in which punitive measures such as suspensions, expulsions, and school-based arrests are increasingly used to deal with student misbehavior, and huge numbers of youth are pushed out of school and into prisons and jails. - See more at: http://www.advancementproject.org/issues/stopping-the-school-to-prison-pipeline#sthash.dzz5yXwY.dpuf
The goals of Ending the Schoolhouse to Jailhouse Track are:
The ACLU believes that children should be educated, not incarcerated. We are working to challenge numerous policies and practices within public school systems and the juvenile justice system that contribute to the school to prison pipeline.
http://www.aclu.org/racial-justice/school-prison-pipeline
The School-to-Prison Pipeline Exposed, a new study that's thus far received very little attention, has revealed that in states that use high-stakes exit exams, students who fail these tests were more than 12 percent more likely to face incarceration and had lower graduation rates than states without exit exams. Meanwhile, the study found no consistent effects of exit exams on employment or the distribution of wages. And video.....
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=10458
Group against the trend....
Across the country, school systems are shutting the doors of academic opportunity on students and funneling them into the juvenile and criminal justice systems. The combination of overly harsh school policies and an increased role of law enforcement in schools has created a “school-to-prison pipeline,” in which punitive measures such as suspensions, expulsions, and school-based arrests are increasingly used to deal with student misbehavior, and huge numbers of youth are pushed out of school and into prisons and jails. - See more at: http://www.advancementproject.org/issues/stopping-the-school-to-prison-pipeline#sthash.dzz5yXwY.dpuf
The goals of Ending the Schoolhouse to Jailhouse Track are:
- To document and expose the use of zero tolerance and other harsh disciplinary policies and the “School-to-Prison Pipeline";
- To develop and implement school discipline reforms on the local level that will serve as models for other communities;
- To strengthen the capacity of the youth and parents involved in this work to become engaged citizens and agents of change;
- To impact the national conversation about this issue in order to facilitate broader reforms.
