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This resource digest contains listings of U.S. based organizations and institutions currently working on equity issues in school discipline. Listings in part one are organized by geographic region and include a description of the nature of each group’s work and project initiatives. Part two of this digest includes federal agencies, educational, professional, policy and legislative organizations focusing their work on issues of disparities in school discipline organized by type of organization. You will find an index at the end of the digest listing each organization alphabetically. The intention is for this digest to be useful in coordinating advocacy groups, educators, policymakers and researchers. Please note that this digest will be continuously expanded. Visit the Discipline Disparities Research-to-Practice Collaborative website at rtpcollaborative.indiana.edu for the most up to date version.

Prepared by the Equity Project at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN Updated March 2014

     

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ADVANCEMENT PROJECT Scope: National Target Group: Students, Parents, Educators, Policymakers Target Issues: School reform, School discipline, School-to-Prison Pipeline, Law enforcement reform http://www.advancementproject.org/ and www.stopschoolstojails.org Advancement Project is a next generation, multi-racial civil rights organization. They tackle inequity with innovative strategies and strong community alliances. With a national office in Washington, DC and two offices in California, Advancement Project combines law, communications, policy and technology to create workable solutions and achieve systemic change. They aim to inspire and strengthen movements that expand opportunity for all.

As part of Advancement Project’s commitment to breaking down obstacles to inclusion, securing racial equity, and expanding opportunity for all, their Ending the Schoolhouse to Jailhouse Track Project seeks to end harsh and unfair discipline policies and practices that not only create barriers to educational equity but also criminalize students. They work both on-the-ground with their grassroots partners and at the national level to expose and eliminate K-12 disciplinary policies and practices that perpetuate educational injustice and structural racism.

Initiatives: Advancement Project believes it is vitally important that youth, parents, and communities – especially communities of color and low-income communities – be at the forefront of the movement to dismantle the School-to-Prison Pipeline. These are the stakeholders most affected, and therefore most vulnerable to the dire consequences of inaction. As such, we focus much of our attention on equipping them with the research, policy analysis, strategic guidance, and communications support required to build power and create sustainable changes in these policies and practices.

Advancement Project is currently working on 15-20 local- and state-level campaigns with their grassroots partners across the country. They also participate in and support several national efforts to address school discipline policies and practices.

Advancement Project is actively working to both change the discourse around school discipline issues and develop the communications infrastructure that will allow advocates to communicate more effectively with each other and with their policymakers.

Advancement Project is broadening and strengthening the movement against the inequitable discipline and criminalization of students by convening four School-to-Prison Pipeline Regional ActionCamps in 2012, in which participants will be armed with strategies and tools for addressing these issues in their communities and potential collaborative efforts across localities will be explored.

Advancement Project is seeking to increase the number of allies from other sectors that are working to address these issues by conducting an outreach effort to stakeholders within the education, law enforcement, juvenile justice, labor, and faith communities, among others.

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The mission of the Civil Rights Project (CRP) is to help renew the civil rights movement by bridging the worlds of ideas and action, to be a preeminent source of intellectual capital within that movement, and to deepen the understanding of the issues that must be resolved to achieve racial and ethnic equity as society moves through the great transformation of the 21st century. Initiatives: In 2003, CRP launched a three-year initiative, the School-to-Prison Pipeline, focusing on

the "pipeline" that is tracking certain high-risk, minority children directly from school into the criminal justice system. The CRP works in concert with advocates, educators, and policy analysts to redirect the flow of this pipeline away from increasingly punitive regimes of social control.

CRP has published a number of reports on critical issues related to school discipline affecting this country's elementary and secondary students: Discipline Policies, Successful Schools, and Racial Justice; The School-to-Prison Pipeline; Suspended Education: Urban Middle Schools in Crisis; and Opportunities Suspended: The Devastating Consequences of Zero Tolerance.

Contact: Daniel Losen, Director, Center for Civil Rights Remedies at CRP losendan@gmail.com DIGNITY IN SCHOOLS CAMPAIGN (DSC) Scope: National, Los Angeles, New York, Washington, D.C. Target Group: Students Target Issues: Disproportionality in school discipline http://www.dignityinschools.org/ The Dignity in Schools Campaign (DSC) challenges the systemic problem of push-out in our nation's schools and advocates for the human right of every child to a quality education and to be treated with dignity. The DSC unites parents, youth, educators and advocates in a campaign to promote local and national alternatives to a culture of zero tolerance, punishment and removal. Initiatives: DSC develops federal policy recommendations and national action strategies for

promoting positive alternatives to zero tolerance discipline, such as Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports, restorative practices, conflict resolution and mediation programs.

The DSC Days at the Capitol brings together parents, students, educators and education advocates who seek to raise awareness and build support for urgently needed school discipline reform

Contact: Chloe Dugger, Coordinator chloe@dignityinschools.org

     

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GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANCE NETWORK (GSA Network) Scope: National and Statewide Target Group: LGBTQ Students, Allies and Advocates Target Issues: LGBTQ students’ education rights, health, safety and discipline http://www.gsanetwork.org/about-us The Gay-Straight Alliance Network (GSA Network) is a national non-profit that coordinates and assists statewide and regional organizations supporting Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) clubs working to fight homophobia and transphobia in schools. It is linked to positive outcomes in increasing LGBTQ students' safety, mental health, academic achievement and overall success. GSA Network is currently based in CA and supports over 850 student clubs statewide. Initiatives: GSA Support and Base Building. Founded in 1998, Gay-Straight Alliance Network's

primary goal continues to be to build the capacity of 33 state based GSA Networks to continue to build a broad base of student support for LGBTQ student rights, support the formation of new GSA clubs, new GSA Networks and provide technical assistance to member state GSA networks.

Policy Advocacy for LGBTQ Student Safety. GSA Network continues to push for statewide and federal protections of LGBTQ students, safety and curriculum equity.

Racial and Economic Justice Projects (REJ). Funded by Open Society Foundation, the REJ projects work to further GSA Networks capacity to engage LGBTQ youth of color; link and align the work of the GSA and Safe Schools movement to that of the Education Justice movement and ensure that safe schools policies do not further accelerate students into the school to prison pipeline; address the growing issue of LGBTQ youth being incarcerated through school discipline practices.

Safe and Healthy LGBT Youth project. Recently funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to address high risk target populations for HIV/STDS, the Safe & Healthy LGBT Youth project works to increase GSA clubs' abilities to address the largely unaddressed sexual health education needs of underserved and at risk LGBTQ and gender non-conforming youth, and increases state and regional GSA Networks' ability to provide community based resources and testing referrals.

Contact: Carolyn Laub, Executive Director info@gsanetwork.org GAY, LESBIAN & STRAIGHT EDUCATION NETWORK (GLSEN) Scope: National and Statewide Target Group: LGBTQ Students, Allies and Advocates Target Issues: LGBTQ students’ education rights, health, safety and discipline http://www.glsen.org/

 

 

 

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promote effective and culturally-appropriate community-based interventions and alternatives to detention and incarceration. The program is a combination of direct service providers, court and policy advocates and youth and community organizers who work to promote effective and culturally-appropriate community-based interventions and alternatives to detention and incarceration

The BI and the Center for Community Alternatives and Justice Policy Institute jointly worked to find innovative ways to use international law (i.e. United Nation's treaties) in juvenile justice advocacy in the U.S. As part of this effort, the BI helped draft the Juvenile Justice Shadow report that critiqued the performance of the U.S. in dealing with racial discrimination.

Contact: James Bell, Founder and Executive Director jbell@burnsinstitute.org

     

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WEST ACLU OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA (ACLU-NC) Scope: California Target Group: LGBTQ students, students of color, English-learners, students with disabilities, students in foster care, and students who are pregnant and parenting. Target Issues: Disproportionality in school discipline, Harassment, Discrimination http://www.aclunc.org/ The ACLU of Northern California (ACLU-NC) works to preserve and guarantee the protections of the Constitution's Bill of Rights. ACLU-NC aims to extend these freedoms to segments of our population who have traditionally been denied their rights, including people of color; lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people; women; mental-health patients; prisoners; people with disabilities; and the poor. Initiatives: The Schools for All Campaign is a multidisciplinary campaign aimed at keeping students

in comprehensive schools that are supportive, safe, and equitable. The ACLU-NC released a report, Schools for All Campaign: The School Bias & Pushout Problem, that is a distillation of the roundtable discussion focused on the nature of the problem of school bias and pushout, how vulnerable youth populations intersect with one another, and the need to address these very complex and overlapping issues in a manner that is respectful of all students served by our education system. The report also includes a discussion of various approaches that could be used to combat the problem of school bias and pushout and move us towards creating school environments that are welcoming and inclusive of all of our nation’s schoolchildren.

The ACLU-NC has developed a toolkit, based on policy recommendations from the report, for advocates to use to develop more just and positive discipline strategies in public schools, so that California youth can have a better chance of graduating from elementary and secondary schools with the education they deserve.

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CGCT is engaged in participatory movement-building for dignified public schools, liberatory education, and grassroots curriculum development. CGCT thinks all students must be able to engage in relevant learning, real world problem solving, social justice actions, and serious community building in order to be equipped with the "tools" needed for survival in a changing and challenging world. Initiatives: CGCT is involving communities throughout Chicago in publishing a Pre-K through Ph.D.

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truancy and expulsion among the student body at Gage Park High School. SWYC’s objective is to provide case management, life skills workshops, and support.

Contact: Kadi Sisay, Interim Executive Director ksisay@swyc.org STUDENT ADVOCACY CENTER (SAC) Target Group: Students Target Issues: Zero Tolerance, Juvenile Justice Scope: Michigan http://www.studentadvocacycenter.org/index.shtml The Student Advocacy Center (SAC) focuses on the educational experience of students and aims to identify successful practices and policies as well as the barriers to effective service. SAC works in partnership with families and schools to promote educational practices that result in success for students, as well as to challenge exclusionary policies that may have a harmful impact on students and families. Initiatives: The Student Advocacy Program for Court Involved Youth provides a comprehensive,

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Contact: Leslie Harrington, Executive Director leslie@studentadvocacycenter.org VOICES OF YOUTH IN EDUCATION (VOYCE) Scope: Chicago Target Group: Students Target Issues: Disproportionality in school discipline http://www.voyceproject.org/about-voyce Voices of Youth in Chicago Education (VOYCE) is an organizing collaborative for education justice led by students of color from six community organizations across the city of Chicago: Albany Park Neighborhood Council, Brighton Park Neighborhood Council, Kenwood Oakland Community Organization, Logan Square Neighborhood Association, Southwest Organizing Project, and TARGET Area Development Corporation. All of VOYCE’s work is driven by the belief that the young people most directly affected by school policy have what it takes to create long-lasting, systemic solutions to educational inequities. Based on the findings from a year and a half of youth-led action research, VOYCE’s organizing advances youth-led reforms that shift resources and investment away from harmful disciplinary practices and towards the supports and instruction that young people need to graduate from high school ready for college and careers. Initiatives: VOYCE is organizing for a re-write of the Student Code of Conduct and district-wide

charter policy that puts strong limits on the use of suspensions, expulsions, police referrals, transfers and fines at all CPS schools, including charters.

The creation of a publicly-accessible database that includes comprehensive school-level information (including charter and contract schools) on the use of suspensions, expulsions, police referrals, transfers and fines. This information must be disaggregated by race, gender, special education status, ELL status and socioeconomic status.

Increased investment in policies and programs that use prevention and effective intervention strategies to address misconduct and school climate.

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FAMILIES AND FRIENDS OF LOUISIANA’S INCARCERATED CHILDREN (FFLIC) Scope: Louisiana Target Group: Students Target Issues: Disproportionality in school discipline http://www.fflic.org/ Families and Friends of Louisiana’s Incarcerated Children (FFLIC) is a statewide membership-based organization that fights for a better life for all of Louisiana’s youth, especially those involved in or targeted by the juvenile justice system. FFLIC engages in education, community building, and leadership development advocacy through strategically chosen goals in order to empower individuals, families and communities to transform currently oppressive systems and institutions into ones that uphold justice for our families; to build strong, powerful families and communities; and to fight for justice for our children and ourselves. Initiatives: The Juvenile Justice Implementation Committee (JJIC) is tasked with overseeing reform,

added periodic juvenile placement reviews to ensure that youth are kept in the least restrictive setting, and promoting the development of nationally recognized and accepted standards of practice for local juvenile detention facilities. FFLIC’s campaign to stop the School-to-Prison Pipeline involves working to reform the Louisiana school system and the juvenile justice system by dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline.

Contact: Gina Womack, Executive Director gbwomack@fflic.org GWINNETT PARENT COALITION TO DISMANTLE THE SCHOOL TO PRISON PIPELINE (Gwinnett SToPP) Scope: Georgia, Local and Statewide collaborations Target Group: Parents Target Issues: School-to-Prison Pipeline http://www.stopschoolstojails.org/content/gwinnett-parent-coalition-dismantle-school-prison-pipeline The Gwinnett Parent Coalition’s vision is to lead a parent-driven, community-centered partnership approach to identifying and dismantling the School-to-Prison pipeline in Gwinnett County; including parent/community education, district monitoring and accountability, and recommending best practices. Initiatives: Gwinnett SToPP’s work centers around education policy, advocacy, and public education

on the School-to-Prison Pipeline. As part of awareness and education tenets, Gwinnett

     

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SToPP recently launched the Parent Leadership Institute (PLI). PLI is an extensive training course pairing grassroots community leadership training with education advocacy training and school discipline reform tools. As a requirement of graduation, participants are assigned to project teams to implement a school-community project designed to impact a feeder into the School-to-Prison Pipeline, ultimately improving the climate for learning in schools. Gwinnett SToPP’s first cohort graduates in March 2012.

On the policy side, because achievement and discipline are inextricably intertwined, Gwinnett SToPP filed a discrimination complaint with the Office for Civil Rights of the U.S. Department of Education against Gwinnett County Public Schools (GCPS) regarding its Investing in Educational Excellence Partnership (IE2) contract with the Georgia Department of Education. The complaint alleges that the accountability and performance objectives featured in the IE2 contract, which allow GCPS to bypass several existing state laws, are dependent upon different aggregate performance benchmarks segregated by race and therefore are discriminatory. The complaint has led to the Office for Civil Rights opening an investigation.

Contact: Marlyn Tillman, Co-Chair mtillman@gwinnettstopp.org POWER U CENTER FOR SOCIAL CHANGE Scope: Miami Target Group: Youth of color, Low-income residents, Women Target Issues: Zero Tolerance http://www.poweru.org/ Power U Center for Social Change is a grassroots organization dedicated to fighting for our land, our people, our community, organizing for justice in our schools and communities, and supporting the struggle of social, environmental, and economic justice. Initiatives: Power U has been working with low-income Black and Latino youth to develop a

campaign around ending the schoolhouse to jailhouse track in Miami, Florida. While the organizing efforts advocate for the end of Zero Tolerance, Power U is also working with students to propose alternatives to Zero Tolerance. Students are demanding the institution of the restorative justice model as policy in all Miami public schools. Youth organize community forums to educate their peers about alternative discipline and garner support. In October 2007, Power U presented at a school board meeting, asking for the inclusion of restorative justice as an alternative disciplinary measure.

Contact: Julia Daniel, Youth Organizer jdaniel@poweru.org

     

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SOUTHERN ECHO Scope: Mississippi Target Group: Students Target Issues: Juvenile Justice http://southernecho.org/s/ Southern Echo is a leadership development, education and training organization working to develop effective accountable grassroots leadership in the African-American communities in rural Mississippi and the surrounding region through comprehensive training and technical assistance programs. Initiatives: Southern Echo and the MS Delta Catalyst Roundtable hosted approximately fifty

participants for a workshop on alternative schools, youth court and detention centers, and the Juvenile Detention Alternative Initiative. Workshop participants evaluated the nature and purpose of alternative schools, including: the causes and reasons students may be assigned to alternative schools; the procedures for assigning students to alternative schools; the difference between detention centers and alternative schools; the guidelines for the administration of alternative schools; and actions that may be taken when school administration does not follow the law or regulations. Workshops also addressed the Juvenile Detention Alternative Initiative, which promotes changes to policies, practices, and programs in the pre-adjudication stage of the juvenile court and detention center process to reduce reliance on secure confinement, improve public safety, reduce racial disparities and bias, save taxpayers’ dollars, and stimulate overall juvenile justice reform.

Contact: Leroy Johnson, Executive Director leroy@southernecho.org SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER Scope: Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi Target Group: Students, Teachers Target Issues: Disproportionality in school discipline, Diversity in instruction http://www.splcenter.org/ The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is a nonprofit civil rights organization dedicated to fighting hate and bigotry, and seeking justice for the most vulnerable members of society. Using litigation, education, and other forms of advocacy, the SPLC works toward the day when the ideals of social justice and equal opportunity will become a reality. Initiatives: The Children at Risk program uses legal action, community education and mobilization,

and media and legislative advocacy to ensure that students get the educational services that can mean the difference between incarceration and graduation and to prevent school discipline practices from pushing students out of school.

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school arrests, school push-outs, security and law enforcement in schools, services that are currently provided in school to support students’ success, and comprehensive student and parent surveys to learn more about people’s experiences and opinions about these issues.

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JJPL represents juvenile clients in individual cases throughout the state through its Post Disposition Project and works to build the capacity of Louisiana's juvenile public defenders by providing support, consultation and training, as well as pushing for system-wide reform and increased resources for juvenile public defenders.

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TEACHERS UNITE Scope: New York Target Population: Teachers and Students Target Issues: Restorative Justice http://teachersunite.net/ Teachers Unite is a steering committee member of the New York City chapter of the Dignity in Schools Campaign. The coalition works with schools and calls on the NYC Department of Education to implement positive restorative justice practices rather than punitive school safety and school discipline measures. Initiatives: In 2010, Teachers Unite participated in the Student Safety Act Coalition and

successfully won a campaign for the New York City Council to adopt the Student Safety Act which creates accountability and transparency over police behavior in our schools, expands the jurisdiction of the Civilian Complaint Review Board to include School Safety Agents, and requires the Department of Education to report to City Council on the numbers of suspensions, expulsions, arrests and student-police altercations in schools.

Teachers Unite members and staff regularly organize workshops and skill shares on restorative practices that include: Group circles where students work together to set academic goals, explore curriculum, develop core values for the classroom community, and address tensions within the school community and peer committees or peer/teacher committees that address disciplinary issues by talking with students about the causes of the issues and identify positive solutions to repair the harm done to the community.

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The Student Safety Coalition, established by the NYCLU in 2007, was responsible for getting the Student Safety Act signed into law. This is a bill that will mandate annual reporting on suspensions and school-based arrests. The NYCLU is currently analyzing the data for disparities. They are using this information to encourage the Department of Education to shift spending away from policing and into positive alternative programs and training.

The NYCLU is working with the Dignity in Schools Campaign-NY and the Department of Education to revise the Citywide Standards of Discipline and Intervention, also known as the Discipline Code, to limit suspensions. The NYCLU is also advocating for limits on the role of school safety officers to ensure that non-criminal discipline matters are not the responsibility of the police.

Contact: Johanna Miller, Advocacy Director jmiller@nyclu.org

YOUTH RIGHTS MEDIA (YRM) Scope: New Haven, CT Target Group: Students Target Issues: Disproportionality in school discipline http://www.youthrightsmedia.org/ Youth Rights Media (YRM) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering youth to know, protect and advance their rights. YRM builds youth power and leadership by engaging young people in video media production and community organizing, equipping them with tools, skills, and strategies for affecting change within themselves and their communities. Initiatives: YRM has been using a variety of strategies to expose and address the schoolhouse

to jailhouse track in the local schools. After listening to repeated complaints and concerns about the overuse of suspensions in schools from their peers, youth organizers decided to develop a film documenting this phenomenon. Resulting in the film, Book ‘Em: Undereducated, Overincarcerated, released in 2005. The documentary brought intense scrutiny and subsequent change to the way discipline was administered in Connecticut. In the year following the release of the film, suspensions in New Haven’s two largest high schools decreased by 50%.

YRM is examining the school drop-out rate, paying particular attention to anecdotal evidence it has received that older-aged high school students are being “counseled out” of school and threatened with school suspensions if they do not drop out.

Contact: Laura McCargar, Executive Director lmc@youthrightsmedia.org

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YOUTH UNITED FOR CHANGE (YUC) Scope: Philadelphia Target Group: Students Target Issues: Disproportionality in school discipline http://youthunitedforchange.com/ Youth United for Change (YUC) is an organization made up of youth of color and youth from working class communities acting on their own behalf to improve the quality of public education. YUC is building a youth-based, democratic organization with the power to hold school officials and government accountable to meet the educational needs of Philadelphia public school students. This is done through a process of school-based community organizing where a diverse group of youth come together, identify common concerns and act collectively on their own behalf. Initiatives: The Pushout Chapter is a group of YUC members who are either out-of- school or

attending alternative schools and programs. The Pushout Chapter is working to improve the school system for current and future students so that they do not get pushed out of school. While much has been done to address this crisis, the voices of young people who have been pushed out of school were largely missing. YUC undertook a project to inject the voices of pushed out youth into the Philadelphia school reform conversation. Their report, Pushed Out: Youth Voices on the Dropout Crisis in Philadelphia, offers the perspectives of pushed out youth on why young people leave school and what can be done to improve the problem.

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Rethinking School Suspensions School suspensions have long been used by educators to discipline the most unruly of students, but a new study finds striking disparities between the number of white and minority students suspended from class—a process that ultimately undermines the academic success of minority students living in high-risk areas. A National Call to Stop Using Out-of-School Suspensions Students, educators, parents, and community leaders have launched a national call for a moratorium on out-of-school suspensions and for schools to adopt more constructive disciplinary policies that benefit students, classrooms and communities. School Discipline Reform Long Overdue, Experts Say As schools around the country have tightened their disciplinary policies to curtail the possibility of school violence, some experts caution that these measures are doing more harm than good.

 

 

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INDEX 

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ACLU OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA (ACLU-NC) .......................................................................................................... 13 ADVANCEMENT PROJECT ................................................................................................................................................. 3 ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN OF NEW YORK (AFC) ................................................................................................. 31 ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN SERVICES, A PROJECT OF LEGAL AID OF NORTH CAROLINA .................... 25 

ALLIANCE FOR EXCELLENT EDUCATION ................................................................................................................... 51 

AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS ........................................................................................................................ 48 AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF THE NATION’S CAPTIAL (ACLU-NA) .................................................. 31 AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS (AFT) ......................................................................................................... 45 AMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH (AIR) ......................................................................................................... 53 AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION (APA) ................................................................................................ 47 AMERICAN SCHOOL COUNSELOR ASSOCIATION (ASCA) ..................................................................................... 48 

C 

CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS (CAP) .............................................................................................................. 51 CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ALTERNATIVES (CCA) ................................................................................................... 32 CHICAGO GRASSROOTS CURRICULUM TASKFORCE (CGCT) .............................................................................. 20 CHILDREN’S DEFENSE FUND (CDF) ................................................................................................................................ 4 CITIZEN ACTION OF NEW YORK ..................................................................................................................................... 32 

CIVIL RIGHTS PROJECT (CRP) .......................................................................................................................................... 4 COMMUNITY ASSET DEVELOPMENT RE-DEFINING EDUCATION (CADRE) ....................................................... 13 COMMUNITY JUSTICE FOR YOUTH INSTITUTE (CJYI) ............................................................................................. 20 COMMUNITY ORGANIZING AND FAMILY ISSUES (COFI) ......................................................................................... 21 COMMUNITY WORKS ......................................................................................................................................................... 14 CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS .............................................................................................................................. 55 CONNECTICUT APPLESEED ............................................................................................................................................ 33 

CONNECTICUT JUVENILE JUSTICE ALLIANCE .......................................................................................................... 34 COUNCIL FOR CHILDREN WITH BEHAVIOR DISORDERS (CCBD) ........................................................................ 49 COUNCIL FOR EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN (CEC) ........................................................................................................ 47 CRITICAL EXPOSURE (CE) ............................................................................................................................................... 34 

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DESIS RISING UP AND MOVING (DRUM) ...................................................................................................................... 35 DIGNITY IN SCHOOLS CAMPAIGN (DSC) ....................................................................................................................... 5 

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EDUCATION NORTHWEST ................................................................................................................................................ 15 EDUCATION TRUST ............................................................................................................................................................ 52 

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FAIRFAXZEROTOLERANCEREFORM.ORG .................................................................................................................. 25 

FAMILIES AND FRIENDS OF LOUISIANA’S INCARCERATED CHILDREN (FFLIC) ............................................. 26 FIX SCHOOL DISCIPLINE .................................................................................................................................................. 15 

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GAY, LESBIAN & STRAIGHT EDUCATION NETWORK (GLSEN) ............................................................................... 6 GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANCE NETWORK (GSA Network) .............................................................................................. 6 GWINNETT PARENT COALITION TO DISMANTLE THE SCHOOL TO PRISON PIPELINE (Gwinnett SToPP)

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INSTITUTE FOR JUVENILE JUSTICE REFORM AND ALTERNATIVES (IJJRA) .................................................... 36 

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LABOR/COMMUNITY STRATEGY CENTER .................................................................................................................. 16 

LAWYER'S COMMITTEE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS OF BOSTON ......................................................................................... 7 

LEAGUE OF EDUCATION VOTERS ................................................................................................................................. 16 

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MAKE THE ROAD ................................................................................................................................................................ 37 

MASSACHUSETTS ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN (MAC) ......................................................................................... 37 

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NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND (LDF) ..................................................................................... 8 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PRINCIPALS (NAESP) .................................................. 43 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGISTS (NASP) ....................................................................... 47 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SECONDARY SCHOOL PRINCIPALS (NASSP) .................................................... 44 NATIONAL BLACK CAUCUS OF STATE LEGISLATORS (NBCSL) ......................................................................... 54 NATIONAL CLEARING HOUSE ON SUPPORTIVE SCHOOL DISCIPLINE .............................................................. 53 NATIONAL COALITION BUILDING INSTITUTE (NBCI) .................................................................................................. 9 NATIONAL COUNCIL ON CRIME AND DELINQUENCY .............................................................................................. 10 NATIONAL DISABILITY RIGHTS NETWORK ................................................................................................................. 50 

NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION (NEA) ............................................................................................................ 45 NATIONAL JUVENILE JUSTICE NETWORK .................................................................................................................. 49 

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OFFICE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS – U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION ....................................................................... 42 

OPEN SOCIETY INSTITUTE-BALTIMORE (OSI-Baltimore) ....................................................................................... 38 

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PADRES & JOVENES UNIDOS ......................................................................................................................................... 17 POWER U CENTER FOR SOCIAL CHANGE .................................................................................................................. 27 PROJECT NIA ....................................................................................................................................................................... 22 

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RESTORATIVE SCHOOLS VISION PROJECT ............................................................................................................... 17 

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SCHOOL SOCIAL WORK ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA (SSWA) ............................................................................. 48 SOUTHERN ECHO ............................................................................................................................................................... 28 

SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER ............................................................................................................................ 28 

SOUTHWEST YOUTH COLLABORATIVE (SWYC) ....................................................................................................... 23 STUDENT ADVOCACY CENTER (SAC) .......................................................................................................................... 23 

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TEACHERS UNITE ............................................................................................................................................................... 39 TEXAS APPLESEED ............................................................................................................................................................ 29 

THE ALLIANCE FOR QUALITY EDUCATION ................................................................................................................ 32 

THE EQUITY PROJECT ...................................................................................................................................................... 10 THE JUVENILE JUSTICE PROJECT OF LOUISIANA (JJPL) ..................................................................................... 29 THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE BOARDS OF EDUCATION (NASBE) ................................................ 44 THE NATIONAL CENTER ON EDUCATION, DISABILITY AND JUVENILE JUSTICE (EDJJ) .............................. 11 THE NEW YORK CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION (NYCLU) ................................................................................................... 39 THE SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENTS ASSOCIATION (AASA) ..................................................................................... 43 

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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION ....................................................................................................... 42 

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE .............................................................................................................. 42 URBAN YOUTH JUSTICE ................................................................................................................................................... 18 

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VOICES OF YOUTH IN EDUCATION (VOYCE) .............................................................................................................. 24 

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W. HAYWOOD BURNS INSTITUTE (BI)........................................................................................................................... 11 

Y 

YOUTH JUSTICE COALITION (YJC) ................................................................................................................................ 19 YOUTH RIGHTS MEDIA (YRM) .......................................................................................................................................... 40 YOUTH UNITED FOR CHANGE (YUC) ............................................................................................................................ 41