There Are No Sanctuaries Black and Brown youth have never received sanctuary in this country, its cities, our communities, or in the institutions that are supposed to provide a safe, nurturing and supportive environment, including our public schools. Despite Mayor’s and municipal governments from New York to Philadelphia and Los Angeles to the Bay Area
In 2016, 19 states legally allow teachers to use corporal punishment within schools and classrooms. Furthermore, according to the Washington Post, every 30 seconds a child is hit within school, and students have been hit for transgressions as minor as chewing gum in the classroom. This use of punishment within schools causes students to feel
SIGN OUR PETITION: TELL MAYOR DE BLASIO: STOP PUSHING US OUT OF SCHOOL AND INTO THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM In New York City, in 2016, a student being Black is the biggest indicator of how harshly they are going to be punished in schools. Over the last decade, thousands of students have been pushed into the
A Step Toward Ending the School-to-Prison Pipeline by Christine Rodriguez, Aug 17, 2015 For years, the school-to-prison pipeline has afflicted communities of color in New York. From a young age, students begin to be treated like criminals within the confines of their own schools—from being handcuffed, suspended, and arrested for minor incidents to starting the
Early Friday morning students arrived at their schools only to find that it was no regular morning. Pasted on the walls all around the schools were large black & white posters. But these were not your typical posters. These posters had facts, questions, and statistics regarding New Orleans public charter schools and their inhabitants —