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TX Appleseed: Don't put misbehaving schoolkids with criminal ones

With the Senate Criminal Justice Committee preparing to examine school discipline issues at a hearing later this month, Texas Appleseed has produced a timely report titled "School Expulsion: The Path from Lockout to Dropout" (pdf). Here's the meat of the accompanying press release:Public interest law center Texas Appleseed today released a new report documenting the overrepresentation of minority and special education students in expulsions from Texas schools -- particularly for non-criminal Student Code of Conduct violations. ... ?Being expelled from school increases these students? chances of advancing farther in the school-to-prison pipeline,? said Texas Appleseed Legal Director Deborah Fowler. Surprisingly, some smaller districts (Aldine, North East, Waco, Klein, Brownsville and Killeen ISDs) top the list of Texas school districts expelling the largest number of students (2007-08)...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on April 16, 2010 (boomark / email).