Schoolhouse to Jailhouse
FLORIDA ACTION: Tell Legislators You Want more Common Sense in School Discipline
January 18, 2012
We must stop spending taxpayer dollars on arresting students and put common sense into school discipline.
Click the images below to view larger, printable postcards or send a note to your legislators now asking them to support SB1886/HS 1445.
ADVANCEMENT PROJECT & NAACP FLORIDA STATE CONFERENCE TO HOST SCHOOL-TO-PRISON PIPELINE DAY OF ACTION IN FL
January 18, 2012
Join Advancement Project in Tampa, FL on Saturday, January 28, for a Day of Action. Register to attend here.
2012 School-to-Prison Pipeline Regional ActionCamps
November 30, 2011
The overuse of harsh zero-tolerance measures, police, and juvenile courts in addressing school disciplinary issues has led to the needless pushout and criminalization of countless youth across America. In response, a growing national movement has emerged to dismantle this School-to-Prison Pipeline. This grassroots-led effort has already achieved important victories, and the momentum for change is building, but there is much more to be done.
Laura Harjo
Laura Harjo is a Research Fellow for the Advancement Project’s Washington D.C. office, and provides research and spatial analysis for their Redistricting, Ending Schoolhouse to Jailhouse Track, and Inclusive Development projects. With a background in critical race theory, policy, planning, and community participatory methods, her professional and personal interests lie in the engagement, empowerment, and emancipation of marginalized rural and urban communities of color.
Leila McDowell
Leila McDowell is an innovative strategic communications professional with a proven track record of success in developing campaigns to impact the national debate, advance new social change narratives, affect policy change and achieve legislative and legal victories.
Press Release: NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND CATALYZES “SCHOOL-TO-PRISON PIPELINE”
March 17, 2011
Advancement Project
Education Law Center - PA
FairTest
The Forum for Education and Democracy
Juvenile Law Center
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.
Study by ACLU of Florida, Advancement Project, & Florida State Conference of the NAACP Reveals Shortcomings of Reforms to “Zero-Tolerance” Policies in Florida Schools
March 7, 2011
MIAMI, FL – The ACLU of Florida, Advancement Project, and the Florida State Conference of the NAACP released a report today on their study of the ongoing harmful impacts of Florida schools’ “zero-tolerance” policies. The study, entitled “Still Haven’t Shut Off the School-to-Prison Pipeline: Evaluating the Impact of Florida’s New Zero-Tolerance Law,” shows that although the state took a significant step forward by amending its harsh zero-tolerance law in 2009, meaningful reform has still not reached most of the schools – and students – across the state.
Still Haven’t Shut Off the School-to-Prison Pipeline: Evaluating the Impact of Florida’s New Zero-Tolerance Law
March 7, 2011
The ACLU of Florida, Advancement Project, and the Florida State Conference of the NAACP released a report today on their study of the ongoing harmful impacts of Florida schools’ “zero-tolerance” policies. The study, entitled “Still Haven’t Shut Off the School-to-Prison Pipeline: Evaluating the Impact of Florida’s New Zero-Tolerance Law,” shows that although the state took a significant step forward by amending its harsh zero-tolerance law in 2009, meaningful reform has still not reached most of the schools – and students – across the state.
Chaz Arnett
Chaz Arnett joined Advancement Project in 2011 as a staff attorney in the “Ending the Schoolhouse to Jailhouse Track” program. His work is focused on assisting and promoting a national campaign to end the harsh and unfair school disciplinary measures that push children off of an academic track and on to a track to prison. Arnett graduated from Morehouse College in 2003 with a degree in Sociology and Criminal Justice. He earned his juris doctorate degree from Harvard Law School in 2006.
Seema Ahmad
Seema Ahmad joined Advancement Project in 2010 as a staff attorney in the “Ending the Schoolhouse to Jailhouse Track” Project where she works against policies that over-criminalize youth and push them out of school. Prior to joining Advancement Project, Ahmad was a Human Rights Fellow at the Open Society Institute in Washington, DC. She focused on post-9/11 civil liberties and human rights issues including accountability for torture, prolonged detention without due process, excessive government surveillance, and racial profiling at borders and airports.
