On July 24 the Dignity in Schools Campaign held the national conference call:
 
How Immigrant Students Are Being Pushed Out of School

The conference call discussed the unique barriers immigrant students encounter in school settings that push them out of school and examined how schools can better respond to the needs of immigrant students and their families.

• Arlen Benjamin-Gomez, Staff Attorney, Advocates for Children of New York
• Len Rieser, Co-Director, Education Law Center, Pennsylvania
• Mark Gonzales, Educator, High School for Recording Arts; Director of Community Partnerships, AIM, California
• Patricia Nix-Hodes, Associate Director of the Law Project, Chicago Coalition for the Homeless

The UN Special Rapporteur will visit Washington, New York, Chicago, Omaha, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Miami and Puerto Rico between May 18 and June 6 to examine issues of racism and racial discrimination in this country.

The Dignity in Schools Campaign presented on the panel "Reframing School Discipline through Human Rights" at the US Human Rights Network National Conference in Chicago, IL.

“It’s All About Effect: UN Committee Voices Concern about Racial Disparities in the Criminal and Juvenile Justice System and the School-to-Prison Pipeline.”

The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination released the Concluding Observations from its review of the U.S. government. The Committee noted with concern that “racial disparities in suspension, expulsion and arrest rates in schools contribute to exacerbating the high drop out rate and the referral to the justice system of students belonging to racial, ethnic or national minorities.” The UN Committee recommended that the US government “encourage school districts to review their “zero tolerance” school discipline policies, with a view to limiting the imposition of suspension or expulsion to the most serious cases of school misconduct, and to provide training opportunities for police officers deployed to patrol school hallways.”