Springfield Student Advocacy Project

05/03/2020

Reach out to the prisoners.

05/24/2016

Wow 🤔

04/15/2016

"I’ve talked to several special ed teachers about their college training. Most agree that their training as far as IEPs and the IEP process, is not at all like the real-life experience. And, they want to keep their jobs–they have bills to pay. So they are forced to side with the schools when in their hearts they really know that the child isn’t receiving what they need."..

"But if your child’s current placement causes great anxiety or shut down or school refusal, they have to stay there until you win a DP and an appeal. And if you keep your child home, you risk truancy charges. I don’t know if this is an example of the system being stacked against parents, but I felt it is worth mentioning.

'“Impartial Due Process” my foot.'

It's not your imagination. Here are 8 ways the Special Education System really is stacked against parents.

03/17/2016

Interesting read .

These inequities compared with white students are similar to those in traditional public schools, but charter suspension rates are slightly higher.

03/08/2016

Pictures from the Launch Party!

03/07/2016

Thousands of Boston high school students have descended onto the Boston Common and the Massachusetts State Capitol in an unprecedented citywide walkout.

03/06/2016

113 followers

01/12/2016

We are having the training for the Spring semester this Friday (1/15/16) at noon in room A at WNE. :)

07/16/2012

Great panel discussion/w Melissa Harris-Perry on the cradle/school-to-prison pipeline.

Video on msnbc.com: Glenn Martin, vice president of public affairs at the Fortune Society, joins the Melissa Harris-Perry panel discussion on juvenile incarceration as they debate whether or not children should be sentenced to life in prison.

06/02/2012

Check out this infographic that shows how the U.S. treats education as a priority vs. how it treats incarceration as a priority. Average annual cost of educating an urban student: $8,985 vs. average annual cost of caring for an incarcerated adult: $31,900. This is clear evidence that we need to work together to stop the continued growth of the prison-industrial complex and start focusing on educating our children!

Using Philadelphia as an example, this graphic compares the cost, both financial and societal, of education and incarceration. Designed by Jason Killi

05/04/2012

Check out this new report by the ACLU of Massachusetts and Citizens for Juvenile Justice that reveals Springfield has a school-based arrest rate that is 3x times higher than Boston and nearly 5x higher than Worcester.

Just Facts is a campaign by Citizens for Juvenile Justice (CfJJ) in Massachusetts that gathers statistical data on juvenile justice.

04/23/2012

On April 13th, our six-year-old daughter, Salecia Johnson was handcuffed and arrested at her school, Creekside Elementary in Baldwin, GA for a...