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Report: Expanding education and employment pathways for systems-involved young people
In 2016, the Annie E. Casey Foundation launched LEAP™ (Learn and Earn to Achieve Potential), a national initiative that helps youth and young adults who have been involved in the foster care or justice systems or who have experienced homelessness succeed in school and work. Through partnerships with public agencies, postsecondary education, housing, service providers and more, LEAP partners are working toward improving policies and practices that place more systems-involved young people on positive economic trajectories.
Tennessee law to let teachers carry guns in schools caused a ruckus, but has drawn little interest
This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters. Josh Arrowood carries his .22-caliber handgun most everywhere he goes in his rural Tennessee community — to church at Freewill Baptist, at the Food City store where he shops for groceries, and in the Greene County Courthouse, where he serves as a commissioner.
Uvalde city officials release records of Robb Elementary shooting that provide new details, reaffirm previous reporting
This story was originally published by ProPublica. Police video, audio, texts and emails released Saturday by Uvalde, Texas, city officials offer new details about the Robb Elementary school shooting while also largely reaffirming reporting about law enforcement’s failure to engage a gunman who killed 19 children and two teachers.
Advocates fear Minnesota students will again be subject to restraint used on George Floyd
This story first appeared at The 74, a nonprofit news site covering education. When they voted earlier this year to let police officers use a dangerous form of restraint on students in schools, Minnesota Democratic lawmakers said they did so because they had brokered a compromise. A task force made up of law enforcement agencies, disability advocates and others would create a model policy aimed at minimizing the use of prone restraint — the face-down hold Minneapolis police officers used to immobilize George Floyd as he suffocated.
Former Uvalde schools police chief indicted for role in Robb Elementary shooting response
This article originally appeared in The Texas Tribune. A Uvalde County grand jury has indicted former school district police Chief Pete Arredondo and another former district officer on charges of child endangerment, the first criminal charges brought against law enforcement for the botched response to the deadliest school shooting in Texas history, the San Antonio Express-News first reported.
National report highlights severe cost of inadequate juvenile justice system
Washington, D.C. – Fight Crime: Invest in Kids released their report “Costly, Punitive Juvenile Justice Approaches Undermine Healthy Adolescent Development,” during a Zoom briefing that brought together experts to discuss the urgent need for reform in the juvenile justice system. One key highlight:. Rather than helping to...
A school shooting in Tennessee sparked activism — and now frustration
This story was originally published by The 19th. Ibtihal “Ibti” Cheko, 17, thought she would spend the legislative session in Tennessee advocating for laws about how guns should be stored and implementing background checks for those who want to buy them. Instead, Cheko and other organizers with Students Demand Action pivoted to trying their hardest to make sure Senate Bill 1325, which would permit faculty and staff to carry handguns at school, did not pass.
School interventions offer best shot at reducing youth violence
This article is republished from The Conversation. Black youth show up in emergency rooms with gunshot wounds or other violent injuries at an alarming and disproportionate rate in the United States. Some hospitals have violence interventions that can be effective in keeping these kids safer after they are treated, but in most cases victims are sent back into the world to continue their struggles.
An Illinois school district’s reliance on police to ticket students is discriminatory, civil rights complaint says
This story was originally published by ProPublica. Illinois law bans schools from fining students. But police routinely issue tickets to children for minor misbehavior at school, burdening families with financial penalties. Two national civil rights groups accused Illinois’ third-largest school district on Tuesday of relying on police to handle school...
Ticketed at school as a teen, a young Black woman is suing an Illinois city for violating her civil rights
ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter. It took four years and a jury trial for Amara Harris to beat the ticket that accused her of stealing another girl’s AirPods. Now she’s heading back to court in the hope of stopping schools from using police to discipline students.
In this police youth program, a trail of sexual abuse across the U.S.
STOUGHTON, Mass. — The last known person to see Sandra Birchmore alive was a police officer. He stopped by her apartment days before the elementary school teacher’s aide, 23 years old and newly pregnant, was found dead in February 2021. The medical examiner later ruled her death a suicide.
As more youth struggle with behavior and traditional supports fall short, clinicians are partnering with lawyers to help
This story was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, nonpartisan news outlet focused on education. Every night before going to bed, Antonio would tuck in his three younger siblings. After school, he’d tinker with toy cars, or help his dad, a mechanic, fix things around the house. “He’s...
Mostly banned from adult courts, polygraphs also shouldn’t be used against juveniles
In 1998, the U.S. Supreme Court banned from courtroom evidence most results from lie-detector tests because those polygraph exams are scientifically flawed and unreliable, a ruling the American Psychological Association concurred with. Not a total ban, though, the ruling allowed polygraph results to remain in use during pre-trial evidentiary hearings...
Despite outcry over seclusion at juvenile detention centers, Tennessee lawmakers fail to pass oversight bill
This story was originally published by ProPublica. Children in Rutherford County, have been arrested and jailed at rates unparalleled in the state. This story reports on an investigation of why that is happening — and other ways the justice system there singles out children. A bill that would strengthen...
Q&A: This Colorado teacher survived Columbine. Here’s how she prioritizes trauma-informed practices.
This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters. When Heather Martin was a senior in high school, she survived the Columbine High School shooting that killed 12 students and one teacher in Littleton, Colorado. Even as she tried to move on with her life, she carried the trauma of that day inside her — often in ways that surprised her.
What happens when suspensions get suspended?
LOS ANGELES — When Abram van der Fluit began teaching science more than two decades ago, he tried to ward off classroom disruption with the threat of suspension: “I had my consequences, and the third consequence was you get referred to the dean,” he recalled. Suspending kids...
The parents paying for their children’s crimes
This article was first published by The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice system. In separate trials earlier this year, Jennifer and James Crumbley became the first parents in U.S. history to be convicted of involuntary manslaughter for a mass shooting committed by their child.
Many states don’t educate people sentenced to life. Now some are coming home.
When Yusef Qualls-El was 17, a judge sentenced him to life behind bars. It was the mid-1990s, an era when the U.S. prison population exploded. Thousands of minors like Qualls-El received sentences of life without parole and entered prison at an age when their peers were going to college or starting their careers. But inside, education is often reserved for those who will soon return to society. As a result, those who were seen as the least likely to get out had the fewest opportunities.
Amid clamor from protesters, Tennessee Senate passes bill to arm some teachers
This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters. Amid outbursts from gun control advocates in the spectator gallery, Tennessee’s GOP-dominated Senate passed a bill Tuesday to allow some teachers and staff to carry concealed handguns in public schools. The vote was 26-5 vote along partisan...
Breaking walls, building bridges: A call for restorative justice in school discipline
This story was originally produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, nonpartisan news outlet focused on education. Imagine waking up each morning with no hope for the day ahead, navigating a minefield of potential conflicts with your body on high alert. That was my reality as a marginalized youth — misunderstood, labeled as a troublemaker and cast out without a chance to reconcile and evolve. Growing up with anxiety in school is an all-too-common experience that perpetuates a cycle of fear and resentment. It’s time to acknowledge and address this narrative that adversely affects our youth’s learning experiences and the education system.
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