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An analysis of data revealed that the police arrest Black & Hispanic students disproportionately in NYC schools. The police are also more likely to handcuff students of color.

A Tennessee prosecutor said he will drop criminal charges against elementary school children. Parents protested the arrests.

The W.K. Kellogg Foundation is donating $4.7 million to eight organizations in New Orleans and two coalitions in Mississippi devoted to uplifting young men and…

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The school-t0-prison pipeline is alive and well in America. There are currently more than 60,000 individuals under the age of 21 locked behind bars in…

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Protesters stormed a Portland, Ore., school board meeting earlier this week, demanding more time to learn about a bid to reduce racial and economic segregation…

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Several school systems in Mississippi where black students face disproportionate rates of suspensions and expulsions are already starting to address the problems cited in a report released on Thursday, but more changes are needed, civil rights advocates say. Leaders with the NAACP, the ACLU, the Mississippi Coalition for the Prevention of Schoolhouse to Jailhouse, and […]

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The school-to-prison pipeline engulfing the Mississippi grade-school system has become so widespread that kids as young as 10 years old, by far the overriding majority of them minorities, are now being jailed for infractions as mundane as wearing the wrong colored socks or not wearing a belt as part of their school uniform. In adhering […]

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The school-to-prison pipeline engulfing the Mississippi grade-school system has become so widespread that kids as young as 10 years old, by far the overriding majority of them minorities, are now being jailed for infractions as mundane as wearing the wrong colored socks or not wearing a belt as part of their school uniform. In adhering […]

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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Authorities in east Mississippi run a "school-to-prison pipeline" that locks up students for infractions like flatulence or wearing the wrong color socks. The U.S. Justice Department said the policy mainly affects black and disabled children in a federal lawsuit on Wednesday. The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Jackson said […]