Back-to-School Action Guide: Re-Engaging Students and Closing the School-to-Prison Pipeline
Date:  09-14-2021

The Sentencing Project report provides a wide variety of promising and proven strategies to close the school-to-prison pipeline
From the Sentencing Project:

In this report, The Sentencing Project details a wide variety of promising and proven strategies through which schools and community partners can:

  • Reduce unnecessary arrests at school,

  • Replace the counterproductive overuse of exclusionary discipline (e.g., suspensions and expulsions),

  • Improve social and educational climate within schools, and

  • Provide vulnerable students with the services and supports they need to maintain good attendance, avoid disciplinary problems, thrive academically, and remain on track toward graduation and higher education. Read the full report here.