Dignity in Schools

The Dignity in Schools Campaign has several active projects which include:

Teleconference Series — The DSC organizes teleconference calls that bring advocates together from around the country to engage in discussion and debate around pushout and school discipline and to develop strategies for working together.

Research Group — The DSC continues to develop our on-line research database to share information about the pushout problem and build alliances for combating pushout across the country. We are working on two projects:
- Research on Pushout and Effective Alternatives — we are compiling summaries of research studies, news articles and advocacy reports to better understand how and why students are being pushed out of school; and to understand effective models to prevent pushout.
- Interviews of Groups on Legal and Advocacy Strategies — we are gathering information at the local level from advocates, organizers, educators and lawyers about effective policy, legislative and organizing strategies for how to combat pushout

National Working Conference on Pushout and Human Rights — The DSC is planning a national working conference on pushout and human rights to take place at the Northwestern School of Law in Chicago in 2009. We are forming a working group to plan a conference that includes a human rights action, workshops that spotlight successful challenges to pushout, and workshops to strategize a national mobilization.

To get involved in any of these projects please contact info@dignityinschools.org.