Blog
Fri, 03/30/2012 - 8:57pm
On March 30th, 2012 the Dignity in Schools Campaign submitted comments on the U.S. Department of Education's Teacher Incentive Fund, a part of the Obama administration's educational platform which would provide funds for implementing teacher incentive programs in states and...
Wed, 03/14/2012 - 4:12pm
Bronx Youth of Color Most Vulnerable to School Arrests and Summonses
Bronx, NY – On March 8, 2012, the New Settlement Parent Action Committee, and the Dignity in Schools Campaign- New York gathered close to 100 parents, students, educators, and elected officials on the steps of the Bronx Borough...
Tue, 03/06/2012 - 6:10pm
03/06/2012 – Today Arne Duncan, Secretary of Education, announced the results of the latest Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) – a national survey of 72,000 schools – which shows that racial disparities in school discipline, including suspensions, expulsions and...
Thu, 03/01/2012 - 2:56pm
The Dignity in Schools Campaign's first ever membership drive starts today!
We are accepting applications for Organizational Members, Individual Members and Endorsers. Our goal is to reach at least 60 members by April 30th, 2012.
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Wed, 02/29/2012 - 4:33pm
On average more than five students were arrested every day during the last three months of 2011 – 93.5% of those arrested were Black and Latino.
By Andrea Bustard, Dignity in Schools Campaign - New York
(February 23, 2012) On February 22, 2012 the Dignity in Schools Campaign - New York, a...
Sat, 02/18/2012 - 1:00am
Updated 2/19/2012 : Parents end Piccolo Elementary School occupation after CPS Board agrees to meet in run-up to Wednesday board meeting
Huffington Post, 2/18/2012 -...
Wed, 02/08/2012 - 12:01pm
By Andrea Bustard, Dignity in Schools Campaign-New York
On January 24, Maryland state school board members announced that they will propose an overhaul of school discipline codes to curb the increasing number of school suspensions...
Wed, 12/14/2011 - 1:03pm
By Youth Justice Coalition & Rise Up L.A. 12/13/2011
At 9:00 am on Tuesday December 13, 2011, Day 1 of the Freedom Factory, youth who have grown up in the communities of South Central Los Angeles, Watts, Inglewood and Compton liberated the L.A. City Library's Hyde...
Thu, 11/17/2011 - 3:01pm
This 4-minute report features students' voices from a recent event called Youth Speak-Out Against Push Out. This event was organized by the Campaign for Nonviolent Schools and Education Not Incarceration of Delaware Valley, as part of the Dignity in Schools National Week of Action on School Pushout.
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Tue, 11/15/2011 - 2:29pm
The term school choice is commonly used by corporate education reformers as a grotesque misnomer to disguise their attempted end-run around the U.S. Supreme Court’s seminal recognition in Brown v. Board of Education (1954) of the constitutional right of all children to equal educational opportunity, based upon the absolute rejection of the “separate but equal” concept of...