IDRA eNews: Focusing on School Discipline and School Policing
For 50 years, IDRA has advocated excellent schools for all students, using our proven model of community-centered advocacy, research and community engagement to provide critical insights to federal, state and local policymakers.
Our policy advocacy campaigns, educator training, legal strategy work and research promote equitable educational opportunities for all students, particularly students of color, immigrant students, and those from communities with limited incomes in the U.S. South.
The Southern Policy Update covers policy, research and current events that have an impact on education equity in the U.S. South. This edition covers issues related to school discipline and school policing.
Learn more about our policy work here and join IDRA’s Southern Education Equity Network. For more information about IDRA’s regional work please contact Terrence Wilson, J.D., IDRA’s regional policy and community engagement director at terrence.wilson@idra.org.
In this Issue:
+ What We’ve Been Working on at IDRA…
- Project Seeks to Investigate, Interrupt and Replace Policies and Practices that Harm Girls of Color in Georgia and Across the South
- Advocates in Mississippi Challenge Harmful Discipline Policies and Practices
- Pushing to End Support of Harmful Predictive Policing Program in Pasco County, Florida
- IDRA Works with Students and Families to Address the Harms of Identity-Based Bullying and Harassment
+ Southern Research Corner
- What Educators Need to Know from School Discipline Research
- Focusing on “Top Referrers” May Help Reduce Racial Disparities in Discipline
+ South Got Somethin’ to Say – Education Headlines
