Parents, students protest Noble charter network predatory discipline policy « Parents Across America

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Parents, students protest Noble charter network predatory discipline policy

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Parents, Students: Noble Street Profiting from Predatory Discipline Code

Practices spread as Mayor Emanuel promotes a hidden education tax on Chicago’s Black and Latino families

FEBRUARY 13—With Mayor Emanuel expanding the Noble Street Charter Network as a model for public education throughout Chicago, community groups today released original data on the profits that the growing charter network is making from disciplinary fines imposed on low-income families.

Hundreds of students, parents and supporters from Voices of Youth in Chicago Education (VOYCE), Parents United for Responsible Education (PURE), and Advancement Project marched from Chicago Public Schools to City Hall to demand an end to these and other appalling discipline policies at Chicago’s neighborhood and charter schools, calling Noble a prime example of what’s wrong with school discipline in Chicago.

Noble’s discipline system charges students $5 for minor behavior such as chewing gum,