From Texas Criminal Justice Coalition, February 2020
Today in Texas schools, students at every grade level face disciplinary methods that can land them behind bars. School administrations have implemented punitive “zero tolerance” policies and have increased on-campus policing in response to various incidents over past decades; this has led to negative, unintended consequences and has pushed many students — particularly those most vulnerable — out of the classroom, where they can be subject to criminalization.
But as the spotlight has shown more harshly on youth incarceration and the harm to children and their families, measures to reverse the “school-to-prison pipeline” are being piloted and implemented throughout Texas to ensure that, in efforts to create safe schools, we also have safe students who can reach their full potential.
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