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Red Lion School Area District chooses the low road
Issak Wolfe, a transgender student at Red Lion School District, graduates today. Graduation day is one of life’s big milestones and cause for celebration. Unfortunately, Issak’s big day will be marred...
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Landmark School Discipline Guidelines Announced by the Federal Government
By Harold Jordan, Community Organizer, ACLU of Pennsylvania From left to right, Damon Hewitt (Open Society), Sen. Chris Murphy (CT), Joyce Parker (Citizens for a Better Greenville, MS), Harold Jordan,...
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Since When is it Criminal to be a Kid?
By Maheen Kaleem, Stoneleigh Emerging Leader Fellow, ACLU of Pennsylvania Imagine yourself as an adolescent. A fellow classmate who has been annoying you the whole year finally goes too far—he talks...
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Zero Tolerance: A Student’s Perspective
By Mykal Washington, Intern, ACLU of Pennsylvania Mykal Washington, sophomore at Mastery Charter School, Lenfest Campus In my fifteen years of living, it is only now that I realize that I and countless...
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How a School System Led Me to Advocate for Civil Rights
By Joy Miller, co-founder of the Education and Juvenile Justice Advocacy Network (credit: aclupa) I thought that having your civil rights violated in schools was something that you only heard about in...
View ArticleHarold Jordan on WHYY’s Radio Times
ACLU of Pennsylvania Community Organizer Harold Jordan stopped by WHYY’s Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane to discuss “racial disparities in school discipline.” Check out the full interview here: From...
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Fairness and Accountability in School Discipline
By Harold Jordan, Community Organizer, ACLU of Pennsylvania Harold Jordan On April 11, 2014, the School Discipline Advocacy Service (SDAS) held a symposium, “Fairness and Accountability in School...
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Does Santa Claus visit immigration detention facilities?
By Molly Tack-Hooper, Staff Attorney, ACLU of Pennsylvania This holiday season, there are 41 children incarcerated at Berks County Residential Center, an immigration detention center in Leesport,...
View ArticleRethinking School Discipline
Click to view slideshow. On Wednesday, July 22, the White House hosted Rethink School Discipline, a national convening and conversation on improving school discipline policies and practices. At the...
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Lancaster refugee lawsuit: A whistleblower speaks out
By Matt Stroud, Criminal Justice Researcher/Writer, ACLU of Pennsylvania Plaintiffs and their attorneys from ACLU-PA, Education Law Center and Pepper Hamilton, LLC. Elise Chesson hadn’t been working...
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New Website Explores the School-to-Prison Pipeline and How to End It
By Harold Jordan, Senior Policy Advocate, ACLU of Pennsylvania endzerotolerance.org is a new website from the ACLU of Pennsylvania Every day, we hear from advocates, reporters, educators, and students...
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Pennsylvania Commission Releases Informative Study of School Discipline
By Harold Jordan, Senior Policy Advocate, ACLU of Pennsylvania Pennsylvania has a problem. According to a recently released report initiated by the state House, “The Commonwealth’s rates of expulsion...
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When police arrest children
By Harold Jordan, Senior Policy Advocate, ACLU of Pennsylvania Photo from Steven Lane of The Associated Press. One of the issues that the ACLU has been working on diligently, for years, has been...
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The work of defending civil liberties goes on
ACLU of Pennsylvania Executive Director Reggie Shuford addresses the crowd at the “Show Love for the Constitution” event. | February 15, 2017. (credit: Ben Bowens) Dear supporter, In some ways, our...
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Who is holding school districts and police departments accountable?
By Harold Jordan, Senior Policy Advocate, ACLU of Pennsylvania Surveillance video showed an interaction between a Woodland Hills High School student and school resource officer Steve Shaulis. Photo via...
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My transgender son is trying to find his way. Politicians aren’t helping.
By Ellen* I’ll never forget when my son, Jacob, told me that he is transgender. He was 13 years old at the time, and we were out for dinner. As he ate his lobster, he looked at me and said, “Mom, I’m...
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#RethinkDiscipline: Students of color with disabilities can’t learn if...
Harold Jordan, senior policy advocate at ACLU-PA, offered comment on the harsh discipline of students of color with disabilities in public schools today before the United States Commission on Civil...
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Happy 50th Birthday to Students’ Free Speech Rights!
Credit: Molly Kaplan/ACLU By Molly Tack-Hooper, Staff Attorney, ACLU of Pennsylvania On February 24, 1969—almost exactly 50 years ago—the Supreme Court decided that public school students’ free speech...
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