By CTU Communications | September 25, 2015 | Justice, Schools
File under: school counselors, school-to-prison pipeline, Social Workers, suspensions
While researchers have known for years that African-American students are more likely to be suspended than their peers of other races, a new report from the Consortium on Chicago School Research (CCSR) dives deeper into who is getting suspended, and why, in CPS.
By potter | September 24, 2015 | Justice, Schools
File under: #fightfordyett, Charter Schools, class action suit, disaster capitalism, New Orleans, Outsourcing, Privatization, Racism, school choice, suspensions
Since mayoral control of Chicago’s public schools began in 1995, Mayors Richard M. Daley and Rahm Emanuel have unleashed a tsunami of charter schools and school closings upon the city with devastating results.
By Carol Caref | June 23, 2015 | Justice
File under: incarceration, police brutality, school-to-prison pipeline, suspensions
A Just Chicago reports on the educational damage suffered by children whose parents are incarcerated. It discusses the disproportionately high suspension rates of Black students, and the “school to prison pipeline”. A more gruesome aspect of the racist injustice system is the murder of children, particularly Black children, at the hands of the police and the courts.
By Pavlyn Jankov | June 8, 2015 | Justice, Schools
File under: school-to-prison pipeline, suspensions
Ticketing rates were up vs arrests for Chicagoans found in possession of 15 grams or less of marijuana, and the ticketing rate was similar, a little less than 30 percent, across all races, according to the Sun Times. This data was enough for Alderman Brookins and...
