BY MIAIJA JAWARA AND KESI FOSTER | NOV 04, 2015 When the world saw the recent video of a white police officer brutalizing a young black woman in her high school classroom in South Carolina by putting her into a chokehold, flipping her over in her desk and throwing her across the classroom, we were
On October 28th, 2015 We appeared on Democracy Now to talk about the violent attack on two young black women at their high school, Spring Valley High, and violence perpetuated against black women and children by the state. New York City has more than 5,000 police officers patrolling the city’s schools—that’s more than the combined
Expansion of Student Safety Act to make student arrests public: legislation BY ERIN DURKIN NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Thursday, October 1, 2015, 12:32 AM Cops and education officials would have to make it public when kids are handcuffed in schools under a bill passed Wednesday by the City Council. The bill also would require that
More Than 90,000 New York City Students Are Searched Before School Sep 15, 2015 · by Kat Aaron , Jenny Ye and The WNYC Data News Team Every morning, more than 90,000 New York City public high school students are scanned by metal detectors as they arrive to school. Which schools have scanners is hard to pin
Christine Rodriguez, Make The Road/UYC Youth Leader in The Atlantic Christine Rodriguez vividly recalls her early school years. A native of Brooklyn’sBushwick neighborhood, a working-class predominantly black and Latino section of New York City, her most vivid memories of elementary school consist of crammed classrooms with inadequate books, insufficient chairs, and the constant presence of