Results List
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Just and Fair Schools Fund Newsletter: August 2012
The Just and Fair Schools Fund (JFSF) supports grassroots organizing initiatives that work to eliminate harsh school discipline policies and practices – and that uphold the right to education for all youth. Our newsletter shares updates on parent-, youth-, and congregation-led victories, partner spotlights, news,…
Author: Just and Fair Schools Fund
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Reforms pitched for Colorado schools' zero-tolerance rules
By Kevin Simpson After nearly two decades marked by zero tolerance, reformers are intent on revamping the state’s approach to school discipline, but the effort to craft new legislation has created sharp battle lines. School-discipline reform has gained traction, as several organizations have mobilized efforts…
Author: Denver Post
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Zero-Tolerance Policy Creates a School-to-Prison Pipeline
Interview by Jacob Simas EDITOR’S NOTE: Schools across the nation are increasingly adopting punitive measures as a way to control and deter violence and other disruptive behaviors. These “zero-tolerance” policies can encompass anything from metal detectors to increased police presence on school campuses to the…
Author: New America Media
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Campaign for Nonviolent Schools: We Marched 2000 Strong
On March 30, the Campaign for Nonviolent Schools led a march of 2000 students, parents, teachers, workers and community members to call for education funding & nonviolent schools. Watch a video of the march. The crowd began forming at Juniper and Filbert streets around 3:30…
Author: Campaign for Nonviolent Schools
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Vivien Labaton Appointed Director of Strategic Programme Initiatives at The Atlantic Philanthropies
New York, June 9, 2009 Vivien Labaton has been appointed Director of Strategic Programme Initatives at The Atlantic Philanthropies effective May 28, 2009. Labaton will work with Atlantic’s four programs in seven countries to develop and implement their grantmaking strategies to achieve social justice and…
Author: The Atlantic Philanthropies
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A man with so much to spend but so little time
One evening last spring, as a fierce north-easter tore through the New York region, Gara LaMarche settled in to watch The Sopranos and bake batches of muffins. The next morning, baked goodies safely stowed in Ziploc bags, he set off for the offices of The…
Author: Financial Times
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Ireland slow to integrate migrants into schools
AMIE SMYTH, Social Affairs Correspondent IRELAND IS among the least prepared states to help new immigrants enter the school system and do well in their studies, an international study has claimed. The Migration Policy Index, which compares integration policies in 31 countries, concludes that “boom…
Author: Irish Times
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Report from the Heartland: Elections as Opportunities for Unheard Voices
I just got back from Des Moines, Iowa, where I watched and listened as low-income people, all too often ignored in elections, took the opportunity to raise issues of concern to them with the leading Democratic Presidential candidates (the Republicans were invited, too, but none…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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New Book Examines Inequality in School Discipline
Inequality in School Discipline: Research and Practice to Reduce Disparities. Editors: Russell J. Skiba, Kavitha Mediratta and M. Karega Rausch. Learn more > Inequality in School Discipline fills a critical void by providing the most current and authoritative information on what is known about disciplinary…
Author: Palgrave Macmillan
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Lessons on School Discipline, from South Carolina to NYC
By Miaija Jawara and Kesi Foster Mayor Bill de Blasio announcing a contract deal last year with the union that represents school safety agents. (Photo: Rob Bennett/Mayoral Photography Office) When the world saw the recent video of a white police officer brutalizing a young black…
Author: City & State