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APA Report Challenges School Zero Tolerance Policies and Recommends Restorative Justice, Restorative Practices E-Forum, September 2007
Are Zero Tolerance Policies Effective in the Schools?, American Psychological Association, August 2006
Childish Behavior; Criminal Behavior, The Huntsville Times Op-Ed, June 1, 2008
Web site Civil Rights Data Collection 2006 Web site, Office of Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Education
Collaborative Agreement, Birmingham City Schools Collaborative, October 2009
Derailed! The Schoolhouse to Jailhouse Track, Advancement Project, May 2003
Dignity Denied: The Effect of "Zero Tolerance" Policies on Students' Human Rights, A Case Study of New Haven, Connecticut, Public Schools, American Civil Liberties Union, November 2008
Editorial and Two Blog Posts on the School to Prison Pipeline, Joey Kennedy, Birmingham News, February 2009
Education on Lockdown, Advancement Project, March 2005
New! First, Do No Harm: How Educators and Police Can Work Together More Effectively to Preserve School Safety and Protect Vulnerable Students, Johanna Wald and Lisa Thurau, Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice, March 2010
New! How to End the Criminalization of Students of Color: Lessons from Louisiana, Annie Balck and Gina Womack, NJJN, March 2010; Originally published in the Race Equity E-Newsletter, March 22, 2010
New! Indiana Establishes a Law Enforcement, School Policing and Youth Work Group, Indiana, H.B. 1193
Web site Indicators of School Crime and Safety, National Center for Education Statistics, 2005
Mapping and Analyzing the Schoolhouse to Jailhouse Track: An Action Kit for Understanding How Harsh School Discipline Policies and Practices Are Impacting Your Community, Advancement Project, June 2009
Model School Discipline Policies and Programs, Part 1, Jim Freeman, Advancement Project, June 27, 2008
Model School Discipline Policies and Programs, Part 2, Jim Freeman, Advancement Project, June 27, 2008
National Resolution for Ending School Pushout
Opportunities Suspended, Advancement Project in Collaboration with the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University, June 2000
Policing in Schools: Developing a Governance Document for School Resource Officers in K-12 Schools, Catherine Y. Kim and I. India Geronimo, American Civil Liberties Union, August 2009
Problem Students in Pipeline to Prison, Boston Globe, May 28, 2008
New! Pushed Out: Harsh Discipline in Louisiana Schools Denies the Right to Education, Families and Friends of Louisiana's Incarcerated Children and the National Economic and Social Rights Initiative, Spring 2010
Reclaiming Michigan's Throwaway Kids: Students Trapped in the School-to-Prison Pipeline, ACLU of Michigan, Summer 2009
Safety With Dignity: Alternatives to the Over-Policing of Schools, New York Civil Liberties Union, July 2009
Schools for All Campaign: The School Bias and Pushout Problem, ACLU of Northern California, November 2008
Web site Stop the School to Prison Pipeline, Families and Friends of Louisiana's Incarcerated Children, 2009
Stopping the School to Jail Pipeline, National Council on Crime and Delinquency, June, 2008
Stopping the Schoolhouse to Jailhouse Pipeline By Enforcing Federal Special Education Law, Jim Comstock-Galagan and Rhonda Brownstein, Southern Disability Law Center/Southern Poverty Law Center,
Test, Punish and Push Out: How Zero Tolerance and High-Stakes Testing Funnel Youth into the School-to-Prison Pipeline, The Advancement Project, January 2010
Texas' School to Prison Pipeline, Dropout to Incarceration: The Impact of School Discipline and Zero Tolerance, Texas Appleseed, October 2007
The Consequences of Dropping Out of High School: Joblessness and Jailing for High School Dropouts and the High Cost for Taxpayers, Sum et al., Northeastern University, October 2009
Truancy Prevention Brief, National Center for Mental Health Promotion and Youth Violence Prevention


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Minority youth are 1.4 times more likely to be sentenced to the California Youth Authority by adult courts than are similarly offending white youth. [more facts]


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