Thursday, July 31, 2014

7-31-14 With A Brooklyn Accent:

With A Brooklyn Accent:









Two Bronx Students Talk About Their Schools and the School To Prison Pipeline

   Yesterday, I met with more than an hour with two Bronx high school students in a great Fordham program called "The History Makers" to answer their questions about the School to Prison Pipeline.  After I answered several questions they posed about drug policies, school discipline, race and class biases in law enforcement,  and Michell Alexander's book "The New Jim Crow" the c


7-29-14 With A Brooklyn Accent: Arne Duncan Drops in Unexpectedly on Meeting With BATS at US Department of Education Office of Civil Rights and Gets an Earful!
With A Brooklyn Accent: Arne Duncan Drops in Unexpectedly on Meeting With BATS at US Department of Education Office of Civil Rights and Gets an Earful!: Arne Duncan Drops in Unexpectedly on Meeting With BATS at US Department of Education Office of Civil Rights and Gets an Earful!   On July 28, 2014, following the  BAT Rally outside the US Department of Education, a delegation of BATS went up to  t