“On October 10, 2013, the Campaign for Youth Justice releases a new report, State Trends – Legislative Victories from 2011-2013: Removing Youth from the Adult Criminal Justice System. The report takes a look at states that have, and are taking steps to remove children from the adult criminal justice system. This report arrives at a moment when […]
A new report entitled, “The State of the School-to-Prison-Pipeline in the Wake County Public School System,” was released on August 19, 2013 by Advocates for Children’s Services (ACS), a project of Legal Aid of North Carolina. Relying on the latest available data (2011-12), the report details the high number of suspensions in North Carolina’s largest […]
On July 2, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan spoke at the National Charter Schools Conference, held in Washington D.C. Duncan noted the disparate rates of suspensions between traditional public schools and charters. “In many cities, including right here in D.C., charters are substantially more likely to suspend and expel students than other public schools,” Duncan said. “In […]
