School to Prison Pipeline

Your step-by-step guide to using the Department of Education’s latest data release to uncover—and address—the racial disparities in your district.

Many student activists walked out of class, advocating for responses to gun violence that don’t strengthen the school to prison pipeline.

“Kids who are already less privileged—in how they are perceived and in their access to services—are more likely to have their misbehavior criminalized.”

Can the Justice and Education Departments’ new guidance help local and state officials effectively—and safely—employ school resource officers?

“These inequalities are wrong, but they’re also immoral. And it’ll be the mission of my presidency to bring them to an end.”

Sheriff Leon Lott: “He should not have thrown that student.”

The FBI and Justice Department will investigate whether Richland County, South Carolina, police officer Ben Fields violated a student’s civil rights when he violently arrested her in her classroom.

American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten: “We must do everything in our power to make sure that black lives matter in every classroom.” 

A new study from two researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Education has confirmed what many black parents already know all too well: The people in charge at American schools are much more likely to suspend and even expel African-American children than their white peers. They also discovered that the problem is especially pronounced in the South.