The Emerging Field of Cost-Analysis Research on School Discipline Policies: Opportunities, Potentials, and Challenges

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Abstract

Jim Freeman is Director of the Ending the Schoolhouse to Jailhouse Track project at Advancement Project, a national civil rights organization that combines law, communications, policy and technology to create systemic solutions to inequity. During his time at Advancement Project, Freeman has researched and co-authored a number of reports on issues of educational justice, and has also worked with grassroots organizations around the country on education justice, voter protection, housing, and immigrant justice issues. Freeman is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and Harvard Law School, where he was an editor on the Harvard Law Review. He is a recipient of the prestigious Skadden Fellowship, sits on the Board of Directors of the Resilience Advocacy Project in New York, and is Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center.

In this presentation, Freeman will draw on his work with researchers and grassroots organizations across the country to present a national overview of the emerging field of cost-analysis research on school discipline policies and the ways in which this research has been used to impact district and state-level spending on school discipline. Through this presentation, attendees will have the opportunity to learn more about and reflect on the successes and challenges that organizations and researchers have had with using cost-analysis research to impact these policies, and the implications of these lessons for the emerging field of cost-analysis research on education.

Author

• Jim Freeman, Advancement Project