Resisting the School-to-Prison Pipeline: Solutions From the Front Lines

• In Event: Roundtable Session 19
  In Roundtable Session: Critical Examinations of Race and Ethnicity in Education

Abstract

The school-to-prison pipeline is a booming pipeline that is cause for alarm. Increasingly, this pipeline includes more Chicano males and this dynamic is reflected in low rates of Chicanos accessing high school graduation and the college-pipeline. It is for this reason, this study focuses on the impact policies and practices that are connected to the school-to-prison pipeline are analyzed. Further, this study focuses on the effect of these specifically on Chicano students, as an under researched group. Findings from this study include Chicano students describing effective practices schools could implement to increase access to higher education, rather than the prison industrial complex. Chicano students point to a praxis grounded in community to clear educational pathways and interrupt the school-to-prison pipeline.

Author

• Brenda Guadalupe Valles, University of Utah