Solutions NOT Suspensions Minnesota

When talking about the relationship between suspensions and students of color, less really is more. Fewer suspensions do little for the racial disparities in discipline.

http://www.twincities.com/education/ci_28913656/st-paul-school-suspensions-drop-but-racial-disparities

St. Paul school suspensions drop, but racial disparities stick around Despite reducing overall suspensions by 25 percent over four years, St. Paul Public Schools continues to kick African-American and American Indian students out of school at alarming rates relative to their peers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO4MqYH-AL0&feature=youtu.be

DSC 6th Annual National Week of Action Against #SchoolPushout The Dignity in Schools Campaign is pleased to announce our 6th Annual: National Week of Action Against School Pushout October 3-11, 2014 We are excited for t...

Join us next week as we push back against push out!

Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders speaking on education and incarceration in the U.S.

http://www.nbcnews.com/video/bernie-sanders-says-invest-in-education-over-jails-527326787647

Bernie Sanders Says Invest in Education Over Jails - NBC News Presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., says Thursday that it's time for America to scale back on mass incarceration.

Our first SNS Youth Adult Partnership Community Building Retreat

Ask yourself, is your school disciplining your child responsibly? Take this survey and let us know where you stand.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Legislating_Discipline

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Join us October 3-11th and push back against school push out! Keep a look out for our calendar of the week’s activities and events. Visit http://mneep.org/solutions-not-suspensions/ for more information. Contact [email protected] to sign your organization or school up to participate!

We've relaunched our page (formerly African-American Males in Education) under the Solutions Not Suspensions Minnesota campaign! Be sure to like and follow us as we fight school push out!

Date: November 12th
Time: 6:00pm-8:00pm
Location: 503 N Irving Ave #100, Minneapolis, MN 55405

It is time to re-engage the Minneapolis community as promised
It is time to check-in on the new behavior standards implemented this fall in Minneapolis Public Schools.

MMEP Solutions Not Suspension (SNS) in partnership with the Harrison Neighborhood Association and MPS’ Positive Engagement Team, is convening an ongoing series to share updates, progress reports and gather information in communities most impacted by disproportionality in discipline practices in the school district.

Dinner will be served an R.S.V.P. is requested


Event Goals:

·Update community on role out of new behavior policy

Report out on 2014-2015 discipline data from MPS

Facilitate Community discussion in small groups

A forum on Ferguson and state violence with poets

A forum on Ferguson and state violence with poets Friday, November 7, 2014, 6PM – 7:30PM. CAFE SOUTHSIDE, 3405 Chicago Ave S, Minneapolis. A reflection on yet another murder of an unarmed young African American in Ferguson, Missouri demands that we rework the frame. Three poets —Tish Jones, Taiyon Coleman, and Chaun Webster— are our guides to learn…

Dignity In schools Week of Action: Reducing exclusionary discipline means improving graduation rates--something that helps us all! Cutting the nationwide dropout number in half for all high school seniors in the class of 2011 would have contributed mightily to the US economy at a time when it was desperately needed. $7.6 billion in increased spending and investments each year; and 54,000 mew jobs by the midpoint in these new graduates' careers.