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Civil Rights Suspended
Source: Advocates for Children of New York
Under the U.S Constitution, as well as federal and New York state laws, students and their parents have the right to due process prior to suspension or expulsion from school. Yet a significant number of New York City charter schools have adopted discipline policies that…
Resource type: Research Report
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How ‘My Brother’s Keeper’ Initiative Just Might Save Black Boys
Source: The Root
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="660"] Photo: Thinkstock/The Root[/caption] By Tanya E. Coke By linking education and criminal justice, the initiative could finally address the key problems that are holding back young men. On Thursday, President Obama launched My Brother’s Keeper, a joint initiative of government, philanthropy and…
Resource type: News
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Atlantic Joins the White House and Leading Foundations to Expand Opportunities for Young Men of Color
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
Over $200 million invested to-date to address racial disparities in life outcomes Additional $70 million earmarked for school discipline, criminal justice and Elev8 grantees February 27, 2014 – The Atlantic Philanthropies announced today that they have joined with the White House and nine other leading…
Resource type: News
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Keeping Kids Safe, In School, And On The Path to Success
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
By Kavitha Mediratta
Resource type: News
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Physical Discipline Has No Place in New Mexico's Schools
Source: New Mexico Speaks
>>Watch the VideoIn all 50 states it is illegal to hit a prisoner, someone in the military or an animal yet over one third of the school districts in New Mexico still let staff physically discipline (paddle) children. Experts tell us that physical discipline of students…
Resource type: News
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Looking at the Dropout Issue
Source: The Washington Post
Original Source By Jay Mathews Washington Post Staff Writer Some of the most troubling questions about schools, such as what causes dropouts, have few clear answers because there is so little research. And the reason that data is lacking, at least in part, is that…
Resource type: News
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Brown University – Annenberg Institute for School Reform
$6,000,000
Resource type: Grantee
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University of Virginia – Curry School of Education
$3,245,000
Resource type: Grantee
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No tolerance for zero tolerance policies
Source: Daily Kos
By Tina Dove It’s a simple fact that schools must be safe environments for teachers to teach and children to learn. But zero tolerance policies that force out students for minor infractions defy common sense. Our kids need to be in school, not at home…
Resource type: News
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Don’t Drop Out of School Innovation
Source: The New York Times
By Paul Tough. Last month, the Senate subcommittee that allocates federal education money weighed in on one such promising innovation, slicing, by more than 90 percent, the $210 million that President Obama requested for next year for his Promise Neighborhoods initiative. Mr. Obama first proposed…
Resource type: News
