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How Policy Failures Fuel the School-to-Prison Pipeline

Fri, April 22, 8:00 to 9:30am PDT (8:00 to 9:30am PDT), Manchester Grand Hyatt, Floor: 2nd Level, Harbor Tower, Harbor Ballroom B

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Policy research on the school to prison pipeline has illuminated the role of school level discipline policies as tools for pushing youth of color out of school through suspension and expulsion and towards increased contact with the justice system. There has been less work on the role of education policies and practices originating “outside of schools” for example parent groups, teacher education programs, curriculum vendors, and alternative schools. This panel brings together new evidence on the consequences of these more hidden, highly consequential policy dynamics for youth of color. The papers offer practical pathways for strengthening and reimagining policy in an era in which policies aimed at dismantling the school to prison pipeline have been rolled back.

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