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MotorCityGrassroutes.com
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Enter your email, click 'Enter' and your password will be emailed to you. I cannot access my account. Don’t have an account? You must sign up if you want to upload content to the site. Name field is required. Please use a valid email. Email field is required. Do you live in the the city of Detroit? Are you a student? Type below the characters that you see in the picture:. Go to Google Maps to view Detroit's Literacy Programs. In a larger map. Add a reading resource. Michigan School Funding (video intervi...
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Art | Suspension Stories
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How Can You Help? School to Prison Pipeline. April 17th 2010 Kick Off Event. Interactive Games and Puzzles. 10 Things You Can Do To Interrupt the Pipeline. Sent Down the Drain Comic. Popular Articles (newspapers, etc). Art plays a major role in helping people to make sense of their worlds. With this in mind, we have incorporated art as part of. From the very beginning of the project. Youth Make Art at Representing Pipeline Event (7-31-10). Sent Down the Drain. We are incredibly proud of this tool and hav...
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A Chicago Schools Project | Page 2
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A Chicago Schools Project. End of the Year – Student Discipline Reports. Leave a comment ». December 22, 2011, Voices of Youth in Chicago Education. 8220;VOYCE”) and the Advancement Project. Under the Illinois Freedom of Information Act, Illinois school district discipline data (ie, suspensions, expulsions, arrests, etc.) disaggregated by race, gender, SES, disability, grade level, and etc. The Illinois State Board of Education (“ISBE”) responded December 30, 2011. And again on January 19, 2012. The Chic...
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Justice Matters: July 2011
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Education Policy Rooted in Community Vision. Friday, July 29, 2011. Diane "The Jackhammer" Ravitch! Diane "The Jackhammer" Ravitch. It's Day 2 of the SOS conference! Merit pay for teachers, an Obama favorite. There's no compelling evidence to say this works. The teachers say it doesn't work! BANG- went the Ravitch hammer! Teachers don't get fired. Nonsense, Ravitch blasted! Teachers have an attrition rate of 50% in the first five years! With these numbers, surely some are getting fired. Links to this post.
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Chicago: The Birthplace of Community Organizing : ChicagoStories.org
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The Birthplace of Community Organizing. On Friday, May 11, 2012 · Leave a Comment. Executive director, Logan Square Neighborhood Association. 312-384-4370. naardema@lsna.net. Executive director, Albany Park Neighborhood Council. Works on housing, youth, and immigration issues in an incredibly multicultural neighborhood. 773-583-1387. jenny@apncorganizing.org. National Peoples Action. 312-243-3035. george@npa-us.org. Mary Moreno is communications director. 202-421-0809. mary@npa-us.org. Action Now. Ve...
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Success Stories | Ending the Schoolhouse to Jailhouse Track
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State by state, county by county, school districts are ending the use of overly harsh discipline practices. Check out some of the most recent victories below:. Los Angeles Unified School District Passes Ground-Breaking Student Bill of Rights. The Labor/Community Strategy Center. In partnership with the Brothers, Sons, Selves Coalition had a major youth-led victory when the Los Angeles Unified School District passed the School Climate Bill of Rights. Advancement Project is proud to work with organizers an...
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School to Prison Pipeline | Suspension Stories
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How Can You Help? School to Prison Pipeline. April 17th 2010 Kick Off Event. Interactive Games and Puzzles. 10 Things You Can Do To Interrupt the Pipeline. Sent Down the Drain Comic. Popular Articles (newspapers, etc). School to Prison Pipeline. Illustration from the Youth Justice Coalition. The connections between school disciplinary policies and criminal legal system involvement are both direct and indirect. Schools directly send students into the pipeline through zero tolerance policies that invol...
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Supporters | Chicago Student Safety Act
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Chicago Student Safety Act. Accountability, Transparency, Safety. Members of the Coalition at the Office of the Mayor (1/14/13). The following organizations were members of the steering committee for this campaign:. Chicago Lawyer’s Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law, Inc. Voices of Youth in Chicago Education (VOYCE). Women of God’s Design Ministries. The following organizations offered their input during the campaign:. First Defense Legal Aid. Sankofa Safe Child Initiative.
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Miscellaneous | Suspension Stories
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How Can You Help? School to Prison Pipeline. April 17th 2010 Kick Off Event. Interactive Games and Puzzles. 10 Things You Can Do To Interrupt the Pipeline. Sent Down the Drain Comic. Popular Articles (newspapers, etc). Audio Documentary: BBC – The School-to-Prison Pipeline. Community Justice for Youth Network’s Stop the Rail to Jail Magazine (2009). Dignity in Schools Campaign Fact Sheets. Women of Color against Violence has designed a “Stop Law Enforcement Violence Toolkit”. The Power of Collaboration: ...
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