Ending the Schoolhouse to Jailhouse Track

Advancement Project works at the local, state, and national level to End the School-to-Prison Pipeline: the combination of overly harsh school policies and an increased role of law enforcement in schools, in which punitive measuressuch 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. School systems are shuttin...

Keywords: steve teske, new york juvenile offender law, ijjra, disciplinary policy in schools, blocks together chicago, power u miami, poder austin, student discipline race disparities, clayton co schools, naacp in florida