New analysis from Advancement Project and Alliance for Educational Justice of 372 assaults 372 police assaults of students from 2011-2023 and offers an analysis of assaults from the last school year, 2022-2023. Our data reveals the abuses of power police are capable of in our schools, despite false claims that police make students safer. In the last school year, not only were Black students (over 80%) overwhelmingly victims of police assault, over half of the victims were girls. Police sexual violence was the 2nd most frequent type of assault last year. Since 2011, sexual assault has moved up as the third most frequent type of police assault against students. Yet police faced no consequences for harming students in well over half of recorded incidents. Full report here: https://lnkd.in/gQdGB9Qt
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Advancement Project is a policy, communications and legal action group committed to racial justice founded by a team of veteran civil rights lawyers in 1999. Advancement Project was created to develop and inspire community-based solutions based on the same high quality legal analysis and public education campaigns that produced the landmark civil rights victories of earlier eras. From Advancement Project's inception, we have worked "on-the-ground," helping organized communities of color dismantle and reform the unjust and inequitable policies that undermine the promise of democracy. Simultaneously, we have aggressively sought and seized opportunities to promote this approach to racial and social justice among our colleagues and allies in the organizing, legal, policy, and philanthropic communities. Our Mission is: "To develop, encourage, and widely disseminate innovative ideas, and pioneer models that inspire and mobilize a broad national racial justice movement to achieve universal opportunity and a just democracy!"
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School policing is tied to a long history of racial oppression that currently jeopardizes the physical safety and health of Black students, students with disabilities, girls and young women of color, and students attending predominantly low-income schools. New analysis from the Advancement Project and Alliance for Educational Justice shows that school policing assaults are acts of state-sanctioned violence that extend the legacies of lynching into the modern classroom. #PoliceFreeSchools Read the 2024 update to #AssaultAtSpringValley. https://lnkd.in/g3G4zY6D
#AssaultAtSpringValley: The legacy of lynching in school policing - #PoliceFreeSchools
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Is your school district leadership talking about decreased enrollment? Budget cuts? “Rightsizing”? Do you go to school, work at a school, send kids to school, or organize in a historically marginalized community? If you said yes to any of these questions, your neighborhood public school might be at risk for closure. Join us next Thursday, October 17 for a webinar that will provide you with the tools and strategies to protect your local public school from being closed. Register here: https://lnkd.in/g2XquNiS
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We're suing Virginia on behalf of the Virginia Coalition for Immigrant Rights and the League of Women Voters of Virginia to stop the systematic purges of Virginia's voter rolls that violate the National Voter Registration Act. We will continue to use every available tool to protect the right to vote and to ensure that all voters’ voices are heard. https://lnkd.in/gDEjXVuV
Lawsuit Challenges Recent Voter Roll Purges in Virginia Preventing Eligible US citizens from Voting - Advancement Project
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“Affected communities are not confused that these are civil rights issues that are raised by these decisions [of school closures]. They want someone with some teeth to step in and name it for what it is.” shared Katherine D., Advancement Project's Director of the Opportunity to Learn program. Last week, Advancement Project, Southern Poverty Law Center, and Journey for Justice Alliance issued a letter asking the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights to draw a line in the sand by issuing guidance about when school closures run afoul of federal civil rights laws by placing an unfair burden on students from a racial or ethnic minority group or students with disabilities. Read the full story: https://bit.ly/4c5GQ4e
When Does a School Closure Become Discriminatory?
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The prevalence of school police departments has more than doubled over the past two decades to a point where school district police departments account for nearly 20% of all sworn school resource officers in the country. What happened in Uvalde should have been a tipping point to prove further that police, including school police departments, do not keep students safe. Advancement Project’s A Cop is A Cop report is a comprehensive guide outlining why the increasing trend of school police departments only creates violence, not safety.
our new brief, 'A Cop is A Cop: the rise of school district police departments and why they must be dismantled,' documents the alarming, rapid growth of school districts setting up their own police forces -- disproportionately policing Black and Latine students. These are not "special" police. Instead of safety, these school district police departments embed surveillance, harm, and violence into schools, criminalizing and assaulting students in these districts. LA and Oakland organizers are leading the way in reversing this trend.
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