Photos: Isseu Diouf Campbell
The New School’s Center for New York City Affairs hosted on September 18, 2018 a panel discussion on school-to-prison pipeline.
The panel, which included Caroline Preston, Senior Editor, The Hechinger Report; Pamela Price-Haynes, principal, Don Pedro Albizu Campos School; Gloria Alfinez, parent advocate and Roy Waterman, Criminal Justice Project Manager, Jewish Council for Public Affairs, tackled the impacts of school-to-prison pipeline and uneven application of school disturbance laws, zero tolerance policies, and school reporting of absences.
The panel also discussed alternatives based in restorative practices that have the potential to deepen children’s engagement with their education rather than disrupting it.
The school-to-prison pipeline is the disproportionate tendency of children of color to become incarcerated or placed in foster care because of harsh educational, discipline, and policing policies and practices.
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