Civil Rights Data Collection released grim findings Tuesday morning showing a clear racial gap in how disciplinary measures are enforced in public schools nationwide. New findings from the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) shows that the America’s public schools suspended significantly fewer students in 2014 than they did in 2012, however …
Read More »School to Prison Pipeline Alive And Well: Elementary School Students Arrested For Watching Playground Fight
Lawmakers calling on TBI, Dept of Justice to investigate Murfreesboro child arrests At least 10 children ages 6 to 11 were arrested at Hobgood Elemetary School in Murfreesboro, Tennessee for reportedly not breaking up a fight that not only did not occur on school grounds–rather at a neighborhood basketball game–a …
Read More »Tennessee Teens Arrested And Jailed For Wearing Saggy Pants
Four Tennessee high school students have been charged with indecent exposure in recent weeks, and two of them jailed for it — all because they wore sagging pants. “Full Story – Huffington Post”
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