Discipline and the School to Prison Pipeline - UVM Education Law Institute, College of Education & Social Services

Dec 5, 2014 at the Holiday Inn, South Burlington
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Sam Abel-Palmer, Esq., Ph.D., Director of Vermont Law Help at Vermont Legal Aid
Bernice Garnett, Sc.D., Assistant Professor, UVM Department of Education
Contact: douglas.gilman@uvm.edu

We will introduce and examine the concept of the “school to prison pipeline,” a nationally-recognized term that highlights how school discipline policies can facilitate, rather than prevent, certain students moving from school into juvenile justice systems and adult prisons. Topics will include a review of school discipline practices and the juvenile justice systems, both nationally and in Vermont; the statistical correlation between “zero tolerance” policies and students entering juvenile justice; the impact of police and school resource officers in schools; the links between discipline, drop-out rates and student outcomes; and the impact on this equation of factors such as student disabilities, foster care and homelessness, and the disconnect between juvenile justice and special education systems.

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