School to Prison Pipeline

Discipline Policies, Successful Schools, and Racial Justice

This policy brief documents how removing students from classrooms for minor disciplinary issues harms overall achievement goals and does not improve education for the remaining students. An accompanying brief offers statutory code changes to improve data collection and advance discipline alternatives that can be adopted by state and federal policymakers.

Effective School Discipline Project: Keeping Kids in Class

Georgia Appleseed released its report, Effective Student Discipline: Keeping Kids in Class, presenting the findings of a year and a half study of public school discipline policy, practice and outcomes in Georgia. It includes * Comprehensive analysis of Georgia Department of Education public school discipline data; * 'Voices From the Field' from interviews with 200 educators and public school discipline and safety stakeholders; * Action recommendations for policy-makers and parents to help kids stay in school and on track for graduation.