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DSC Members Win Community Involvement in School Resource Officer Training for Wake County Schools

06/18/2013

North Carolina - On June 4, students with DSC member organizations NC HEAT/Youth Organizing Institute and the Education Justice Alliance, together with the Coalition of Concerned Parents of African...

Nollie Jenkins Family Center Launches Petition to School Board to End Paddling and Discontinue Use of Uniforms

06/12/2013

Mississippi - Youth leaders with the Nollie Jenkins Family Center, a DSC member organization based in Holmes County, have created an online petition asking the Holmes County School Board commit to...

D.O.E. Holds Annual Discipline Code Public Hearing

06/10/2013

Charlotte Pope, Dignity in Schools Campaign - New York, 06/10/2013 A chant of “Solutions not suspensions” echoed through the Stuyvesant High School auditorium Thursday evening, where a crowd...

Oregon Legislature Passes Bill to Roll Back “Zero Tolerance” Policies

06/04/2013

Melanie Zuch, Dignity in Schools Campaign, 06/04/2013DSC member organization Portland Parent Union successfully pushed for the passage of a bill to reform school discipline and roll back 'zero-...

DSC Members Celebrate Victory in Los Angeles

05/20/2013

On Tuesday, May 14, DSC members CADRE, Public Counsel Law Center, Labor/Community Strategy Center, and Children's Defense Fund-California working with the Brothers, Sons, Selves Coalition of Los...

Yes To Counselors, No To Cops

05/13/2013

A coalition of individuals and organizations in Chicago have launched a "Yes To Counselors, No To Cops” Campaign to pressure their federal legislators and local officials to oppose new funding...

ending school to prison pipeline

04 Aug

DSC-NY Organizing For Change At IIRP Conference

The Dignity in Schools Campaign-NY Chapter held a session on "Organizing for Change" at the one day conference, "Restoring Community in Schools: Promoting Positive Alternatives to the School to Prison Pipeline," hosted by the I