About Schoolhouse to Jailhouse
Advancement Project works with communities throughout the country to end the use of school policies that push young people out of school and into the juvenile and criminal justice systems. Through our nationally acclaimed research and analysis of school discipline data and policies, communication strategies, and policy advocacy, we are eliminating the needless exclusion of young people from their schools through the use of suspensions, expulsions, and arrests.
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 “Schoolhouse to Jailhouse Track”;
- 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; and
- To impact the national conversation about this issue in order to facilitate broader reforms.
