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Better Than a New Year's Card... Video Recap of the National Day of Action!
We would have wished you a Happy New Year earlier, but we wanted to wait until we could show you this new video recap of the National Day of Action to Reclaim the Promise of Public Education. We would have wished you a Happy New Year earlier, but we wanted to wait until we could show you this new video. It’s a compilation of the highlights from December’s National Day of Action, when
The Beginning Of An End To Sanction-Driven Education?
Posted on: Wednesday January 15th, 2014
Last week, the Obama administration took an important step for the well-being of the nation’s youth – especially those who are of racial minorities – by issuing new guidelines that many hope will shut down what has come to be known as “the school-to-prison pipeline.”
Last week, the Obama administration took an important step for the well-being of the nation’s youth – especially those who are of racial minorities – by issuing new guidelines that many hope will shut down what has come to be known as “the school-to-prison pipeline.”
This action – welcome, for sure – constitutes a beginning to what should be a major shift in education policies across the board.
First, about the guidelines …
“Leaders of the U.S. departments of Education and Justice,” Education Week reported, “issued new guidance on how school leaders can ensure that discipline policies are drafted and applied in a manner that does not discriminate against racial or ethnic groups.”
What the new guidelines do, the reporters explained, is make it a violation of the Civil Rights Act for schools to “draft policies that unfairly target specific student groups in word or in application.”
The new guidance addresses “what’s known as the ‘school-to-prison pipeline,’ the term critics use for policies that they say result in unnecessary and inappropriate referrals from schools to the criminal
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